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There are quite a few pictures on this page... so please be patient for all of them to appear... These works draw both from my pop-ish satirical comment about the routines of modern life and the contemporary figurative strand. Like the pop type work, these paintings are part of an on-going body of work. Common to a lot of these images are clone-like human figures, symbolic of the repetitiveness that many observers see in the contemporary global world. |
 'Mr & Mrs Average Consumer' - 52x40 Sociologists, advertisers and officialdom constantly attempt to categorise the populace. Is there any longer individuality, or are we all doomed to ABC1C2DE classification? |
 'Dissident Thought' - 52x40 Marshalled by the establishment to think and act alike, dare any individual have thoughts other than those approved of by the establishment? |
 'The Making of Smith' - 52x40 Engineer and modify data to create a new virtual personality. You are not alone. |
 'The Real Smith' - 52x40 Is that a real 'Smith' standing beside you? Possibly Smith does not exist logically although he/she may have physical existence. And what if one Smith is bureaucratically confused with another, or their personal identity misappropriated? |
 'Official Tangle' - 52x40 Red tape. Who needs it? But it's there to dog your life and keep multitudes employed. |
 'Dissident @ 101 Utopia Rd.' - 52x40 Following the herd? Or a free thinking mind? |
 'Rush Hour #2' - 52x40 The routine trudge of the daily commute through the city's streets. |
 'Rush Hour #3' - 52x40 In #3 an individual opts to go against the flow. Just sloping off work perhaps, or opting out of the rat race itself? |
 'The Taxi that Never Was' - 52x40 In the dog eat dog Metropolis two rival commuters square up to compete for the taxi that wasn't there. |
 'Urban Deskpilots' - 52x40 The repetitiveness of purpose and activity in many a workplace is described by the automaton-like figures imprisoned behind desks. |
 'Motor Madness' - 54x38 The ceaseless ebb and flow of Metal which clogs the city's streets. |
 'Bumper to Bumper' - 52x40 Trolley rage, consumer rage, road rage. Dependence on Metal congests the Metropol's streets. |
 'Scooter Mania' - 52x40 A blizzard of fleeting figures passing across the canvas reflects the capital's love affair with scooters. |
 'Find the Gap' - 52x40 Squashed like sardines to accommodate the shapes of their neighbours, a shadow-like crush fills the underground cigar tube. |
 'Flight to Success' - 52x40 Parodying the nation's favourite mallard ducks nailed to its sitting room walls the three figures labour up the career ladder. |
 'The Inevitability of Being' - 52x40 Life? Work? Existence? Are we bowed by pressure? |
 'Work Release' - 66x54 Elated at the finish of their day's labours factory floor escapees flee homewards. |
'925' [Nine to Five] - 66x54 The Metropolitan populace huddles off to work. Clocking on a thirty-five or fourty hour week, the nine-to-five stopwatch pervades the individual's life space and life plan. |
 'Sardine Queue' - 52x40 The Soviets used to have bread queues (it was once said because the bread was so good), but the Metropolis generates its own lines of commuter hopefuls. |
 'I Am Not a Number - But I Am' 66x54 Electronically tagged like livestock we may still 'think' but do we exist? |
 'Repetitive Work Syndrome' - 66x54 Same time, same place. Another day at 'Widgit 4 U' Inc. |
 'Tracker' - 69x50 City slickers are wired up to screens which mirror the ups and downs [in this case down] of financial market performance. |
 'Dawn Traders' - 69x50 Cadres of dealers and brokers man the tradiing floors of London's financial markets. |
 'The Company Disciples' - 50x69 Behind every corporate empire sit the executive mandarins. |
 'Day's End' - 69x50 Night shift for the city's abandoned computer terminals, silently awaiting the next day's shift. |
 'Bull and Calf - Genetically Modified' - 64x54 [on loan] |
 'Gene Slip' - 67x54 [on loan] |
 'The One that Got Away' - 79x79 |
 'Chicken or Egg' - 40x52 |
 '3 Red Mouths - Food Chain' - 79x79 From live animal to human mouth the inevitable process of the inductrialised food chain. |
Copyright © Marcus Harrison 2001-2002, London.