A selection of drawings and paintings made from the end of 2010 where I took, as subjects, individuals from online news footage of the ‘Arab Spring’. The works have never been exhibited in a gallery space – only posted online via my old ‘drawing a day’ blog.
“acceptable losses”, conte on paper, 76 x 59cm
“Arab Spring, Bahrain Winter”, oil on board, 14 x 14cm
“Bab al-Aziziya”, oil on board, 14 x 14cm
“baby’s down”, conte and chalk on paper, 21 x 21cm
“counting the days”, conte and chalk on paper, 21 x 21cm
“day of rage”, conte and chalk on paper, 27 x 37cm
“girl at the Pearl Roundabout”, conte and chalk on paper, 27 x 37cm
“ice cold in Alex”, conte and chalk on paper, 21 x 21cm
“it was yesterday”, conte and chalk on paper, 21 x 21cm
“last summers spring”, conte and chalk on paper, 80 x 80cm
“protester down”, conte on paper, 21 x 21cm
“student with eye injury”, conte on paper, 21 x 21cm
“the gullibles travels (all in this together again)”, conte and chalk on paper, 21 x 21cm
“the gullibles travels (another dead veiled girl)”, conte on newsprint, 23 x 31cm
“the gullibles travels (liberated)”, conte and chalk on paper, 21 x 21cm
“turn away”, conte and chalk on paper, 21 x 21cm
“We are so qualified when it comes to the burning of cities”, conte and chalk on paper, 30 x 40cm
“your opinion is worthless”, conte and chalk on paper, 21 x 21cm
You create characters of humans who but for the hint of sketched bits of clothing would be stateless folk; they figure their pain and existence just as we all do… thanks
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