Ralph Steadman: Leaders Series - Assassin

Ralph Steadman: Leaders Series - Assassin1 of 8 prints that makes up the Leaders series."I thought I wanted to do a series of things on Leaders. People like Kings & Queens, Presidents, Judges, Assassins anything that somebody would call a leader of something. Some cause or other or even simply an institution, like a judge. It occurred to me that they were in fact compelled to be those leaders through fate alone, so they became victims of fate. It was almost their destiny to be such." Ralph

5 cm Medium: screenprint Edition Size: Open edition Year: 2011

the line-up was “no place for Greyfriars Bobby

but now I have the self-confidence to dress how I please

His investigations lead him all over the place from London to Shanghai via New York

She completed a Master of Fine Arts degree at The Glasgow School of Art in 2000

it reminds me of Bruegel and Hieronymous Bosch"

former chair of Art in Partnership

This was more acute in the bas-reliefs you mentioned but I think the prints carry that in them too - they borrow from the pallet of road signs

knotting together notions of identity

Her figures seem to live in futuristic fantastical worlds but they look back to the early Renaissance and the atmosphere of the fresco

Paper Size: 64 x 46

Year: 2008