She
was sick of being under-valued. sick of being pushed around. Of being
judged. Put into a hole. Not allowed to prosper. So, with mop in hand
she wiped the tired old art off the walls and invited her friends to
shake things up. “Come on girls! Lets clean up in here!” She yelled with
renewed optimism and unshakable vigor.
This original 1980’s illustration has been re-drawn at large poster size in typical 1980’s fanzine style.
Originally drawn with India ink on chalkboard. Resized and digitally reworked in Photoshop.
7200 pixels by 5400 pixels | 24 inches by 18 inches | 60.96 cm x 45.72 cm | 300 DPI resolution.
Can be provided at various other sizes on request to suit different displays.
It’s hard to believe but in Scotland, in the 1970’s a beer company sold cans of lager with scantily-clad women on the back of each can. Each women was in a provocative pose and underneath her was her name and a caption describing what she “did” – usually it was nothing to do with her career! I have always wanted to create an art piece examining this. It demonstrates how far we’ve come and also warns us. It could be where we’re heading back to if we’re not careful. My “Lager Lovelies” – as they were patronizingly named – show it like it is. Lager is not glamorous, being printed on a lager tin is not glamorous.
It’s hard to believe but in Scotland, in the 1970’s a beer company sold cans of lager with scantily-clad women on the back of each can. Each women was in a provocative pose and underneath her was her name and a caption describing what she “did” – usually it was nothing to do with her career! I have always wanted to create an art piece examining this. It demonstrates how far we’ve come and also warns us. It could be where we’re heading back to if we’re not careful. My “Lager Lovelies” – as they were patronizingly named – show it like it is. Lager is not glamorous, being printed on a lager tin is not glamorous.
Mizaru is my latest animated sculpture on Known Origin.
Part one of a three-part series of animated sculptures based upon the Japanese pictorial maxim which embodies the proverb “See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil”.
Here we have Mizaru. She has been
confronted by the horror of seeing newspapers and reality TV where women
are objectified, preyed upon, often murdered and discarded like trash.
Like
many of us Mizaru has difficulty coping with the cruel world she lives
in. She choses to cover her eyes to block out what she is not equipped
to cope with.
She escapes into the blissful world of psychadelic drugs, music & art. The distraction suggests happiness to her as she slowly kills herself before anyone else can kill her.
