REIGATE Barry    

Medium: Giclee
Status: Unframed
Edition: 100
Image Size: 685mm x 485mm"
Published: 2011

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Made to accompany the Saatchi Gallery’s exhibition ‘Newspeak: British Art Now’. Image created from many informal sketches and other sources such as footprints, scuffs, marks and pot stains on paper- all combined into one composition like a kind of collage. The image is childlike (a cartoon) and the character is drawn from various images, then re-drawn to become Reigate’s own. The accidental childlike- looking black smudge hides a darker reality: money- a taboo subject in relation to an artist’s practice. In for the Money is at the same time fun and playful.


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Medium: Giclee
Status: Unframed
Edition: 100
Image Size: 470mm x 675mm
Published: 2011

Free Delivery in The UK

Joint publication with the Saatchi Gallery. Reigate’s young dynamic brand of contemporary pop art combines simplistic linear cartoon motifs in a complex and carefully balanced composition, that whilst full of fun and energy on the surface is disturbing on closer inspection; if one looks closely a cartoon rabbit in the centre of the composition appears to be hanging from a bunch of balloons. Reigate is commenting perhaps on the perceived greed of the contemporary art bubble, on art as a money-making commodity. One of the central cartoon characters has its mouth blacked out, perhaps suggesting the stifling of creativity, the gagging of artistic freedom, or the power of art to deceive.



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