CITYSCAPES

These paintings represent urban landscapes dominated by billboards and modernist architecture. An environment of flat surfaces: the facades of buildings, graffitied walls, shop windows, signs and hoardings. Advertising images, as the symbols of the true ideology of the city - the pursuit and accumulation of wealth - are amongst the strongest and most prevalent surfaces in the city. But here the tables are turned: graffiti replaces advertising.

1. Cityscape with Hollow Grin, 1987, acrylic on canvas, 214 x 137 cms

2. Cityscape with Blemishes, 1987, acrylic on canvas, 130 x 214 cms

3. Installation at Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, 1988

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