A section from an oil painting I did for an exhibition exploring Celebrity Culture, likening the crucifixion to the voyeuristic nature of reality TV shows and their physical and mental bullying, if not outright torture for mass entertainment. The exhibition happened in 2009/10, and things haven’t got any better. And I wasn’t on social media then either.
celebrity culture
4th September 2024
This was a mixed media work I made around 2009/10 for an exhibition exploring the theme of celebrity culture, depicted here as a kind of nightmarish Frankenstein’s monster, with camera lenses where the eyes should be and hair made up torn and ripped pages from celebrity magazines. Even now I feel that exposing myself to the content of those magazines showed an extraordinary dedication to my art practice and the exhibition itself.
