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Work Type:painting
Date of work:1989
Materials:medium: oil

support: linen

Measurements:height: 231 cm

width: 137 cm

Style Period:contemporary art
Subject:animal, cow, male, sexuality, humour
Technique:painting
Description:
‘What interests me most in the paintings, is that she uses different languages of painting to produce something completely new. What is nice is that they are very well painted, yet painting is not the subject. It's fresh work in the sense that you can describe it in lots of ways and make it formal, but the real essence of the work is not formal. Also, it's a pun on the macho, and on feminism, without becoming idealistic. And there's humour in them and that's very important. I think one of the major points today, in this art world, is that people take art, in a bad way, too seriously, and, I think, we have several people in the show with a real, apparent, humour in their work. Because of the irony, the humour is the thing I respond to particularly. But, also, the fact that the artist may also be pointing to the art world and taking the rise.’
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Source:Selectors’ comments. “The British Telecom New Contemporaries 1990-91”, exhibition catalogue, Brighton, 1991
Date of source:1991