Posting this last blog for the year. After the Christmas celebrations and hiatus, I return to my thoughts, and my work.
I look forward to the exhibition ‘Trouble & Strife‘ at the Beaney in Canterbury, a companion exhibition to the touring exhibition ‘Manet’s Execution of Emperor Maximilian’ making its first stop there.
Manet used newspaper reportage to make his painting, and was banned from exhibiting it because it was politically loaded. My work uses war photography and asks
‘Can a picture move us any more?’
I hope to encourage artists to take part in a discussion about warfare, image saturation and helplessness. Let us see what happens!
