VIEW IN MY ROOM
United Kingdom
Painting, Oil on Wood
Size: 14.6 W x 16.9 H x 1.6 D in
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After analysing and responding to Eastern European nostalgia, is seemed rather hypocritical not to then look at my own personal nostalgia as well as that of the culture around me. We generally regard Britain as being tolerant, inclusive and peaceful; I was there for quite taken aback when I realized that the last even member of Royalty to be murdered was in Britain, in 1979. I had heard of the Mountbatten bombing yet I didn’t realise quite how resent it was or know about Lord Mountbatten’s Grandson Nicholas or much about Paul Maxwell either, both of whom were also killed. Previous to this the last members of Royalty murdered were the Romanovs in Russia. I knew about this, everyone in Britain probably does yet very few would recognise an image on Nicholas Mountbatten as they would Alexi Romanov. The Russian people feel such guilt for the murders of the Romanovs that they canonised them as saints yet in Britain, even the man who actually carried out theses killings, freed from jail in 2009 shows no remorse. Due to the suppression and subversion of information during the Communist reign in Eastern Europe Russians along with most other Eastern Europeans have a tendency to analyse and question their past as well as their nostalgic impulses? In Britain although I think we would regard ourselves as a nostalgic nation, would say this in a light hearted way, we are generally very unaware of the dangers of these nostalgic impulses, they are in our homes and are with us every day yet we rarely question them and really question why such fractures exist within British society. This unwillingness to analyse what may be causing them is part of the cause itself. This painting is my attempt to start this process with myself. A portrait of the twins I didn’t know about and of how these events are with us in our homes, even if we aren’t aware of them.
Painting:Oil on Wood
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:14.6 W x 16.9 H x 1.6 D in
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I think that painting is important. I see it as being intrinsically linked to cultural memory and an ideal medium to link the past to the present. The memorial presence of the past takes many forms and serves many purposes, ranging from nostalgic longing for what is lost to polemical use of the past to reshape the present. The paintings I make deal with both of these aspects, and serve as a longing and a warning as well as an active means or reshaping the past. Cultural recall and nostalgia is not merely something of which you happen to be a bearer but something that you actually perform, even if, in many instances, such acts are not conscious or wilful. I have a Masters in Fine from Glasgow School of Art which I graduated from in 2012. I currently live and work in Glasgow.
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