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Untitled landscape 2.6.1953 This drawing was made on 2.6.1953, on the day of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. We lived in the country and I went into the fields to avoid the radio broadcast of the coronation of a new British Monarch and made this drawing. It is a protest. It signifies a core intuition and a growing awareness of striving to work on an every day level, the beginnings of a political awareness in cultural matters. Early concerns are apparent in this
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Untitled drawings At this time my engagement with drawing was concerned by certain ascendency of chosen models to which I was temperamentally drawn to. That is, I was influenced by the history of German art, specifically Grunewald, Cranach, Durer, and by the drawings of Goya. The exhibition of Mexican art at Tate Gallery London (specifically the works of Rivera, Orozco and Siqueros) followed by an exhibition at the Tate Gallery by Munch. My military service in
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Munich Assemblages and the later assemblages made in America Assemblage has a multitude of meanings in the English language. In relation to these works for example, it could mean collection, gathering, convergence, sociability. The words alone seem to be already heralding what was soon to become the 60's and all that is implied in the naming of that decade: the streets, spatial relativity, Situationists, whiff of revolutions. It is curious that whenever I start typing the word