Cold War Steve: Benny’s Babbies

• Work is placed in 18th 19th century art
• Contemporary politics juxtaposed with historic works
• Disrupt the museum’s established collection
• Looking for slippage in a traditional sense of space
• Humour in a serious context
• Framed traditionally but is a photomontage
• References to pop culture

Birmingham Revolutions

• Cross between a museum layout and an art gallery layout, separated by 3 false walls 3/4 across the room
• Social change and revolutions
• Salon hang on the walls
• Placards on walls
• Painting is placed on a plinth – interesting because it breaks the expectations of how a painting is presented