A complete history of feminism - Part 1 –Joan of Arc & Part 2 – Mary Queen of Scots
These portraits are expressionistic in style yet our intention is that they fail to communicate. It is because of this that we have chosen important historical figures, who lead full and complicated lives; whose stories we believe have since been distorted into simple rhetoric and iconography. In the same way a child may draw his mum as a simple smiling circle, we paint Kings, Queens and political monsters. This is a neutralisation of meaningful lives into vapid nonentities.
A complete history of feminism (Part 1 –Joan of Arc),2010
Acrylic and oilstick on wood,
5 3.5cm X 46.5cm
A complete history of feminism (Part 2 – Mary Queen of Scots), 2010
2 Persons.
Grimes - Tall and lean
Jones - pale and mean
We are an artistic collaboration between childhood friends Andrew Jones and Lewis Grimes who stumbled across a natural ability to make people laugh through their simple sketches and comics as youngsters.
Escape into the section of your mind reserved for childish indulgence. That unreserved, naive and shamefully fun train of thought you have on those idle office Tuesdays. The pressures of mature adult working lives hound on us like an unexplained importance, restricting us with rules and boundaries. We hide our idiocies away in our minds; shut them away like a monster in the closet. Open the doors to your monster, embrace it. Then comb your hair, put on your trousers and get back to work.
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