The work on this series all took coffee sacks as a start for the collage of various fabrics on canvas. Leaving parts of the stencilled lettering seemed for me to increase their legitimacy as works of art. It spoke of the roots of their identity, both historic and cultural, a visual message incorporated in the…
http://www.saatchionline.com/showdown/view/showdown/16/artist/160705 this link will get you to the piece I have submitted for the Saatchi online “showdown” entitled “Painted Faces”. My piece is a mixed media painted collage of Amy Winehouse with a basis of newspaper cuttings taken from a newspaper the day after her death. If you like the work you can even give me…
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