‘City Flowers’
The city can be viewed as an ugly and dangerous place, inherently intertwined with negative connotations of vandalism and graffiti. The work reveals both the ugly characteristics of a city, but also uncovers the city’s hidden beauty and challenges society’s pre-existing perceptions about how the ugliness can be viewed. Consisting of CCTV cameras, graffiti- ridden trains, barbwire, street signs and sunflowers covered in tags, the result is beautiful and aesthetically pleasing; akin to Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers”. This work blurs the lines between high and low art; bringing with it a mix of contemporary views of living in any busy city in the world.
Details
- Title: ‘City Flowers’
- Medium: Watercolour on paper,oil pastels, ink, soft pastels
- Size: 42cm x 30cm
“This colourful mix of city 'eyesores' combine to form an eye-catching bunch of city flowers.”
