To view a selection of works and texts from the 90s please click in the links on the right hand side.
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Performance takes its title from an earlier visit by Brisley to Barcelona in March 1974 when the last 2 executions of the Franco regime took place while he was there. The Catalan activist Salvador Puig Antich and a common criminal Heinz Chez were executed by the use of the garrote.
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Please go to the text section for Stuart Brisley's notes.
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Please go to the text section for Stuart Brisley's notes.
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Members of the IRA in Dirty Disguises: Heads of Sean Hick, Paul Hughes, Donna Maguire
Please go to the text section for Stuart Brisley's notes.
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During the 1990s the monarchy and the press became persistent themes in the work of Stuart Brisley, the British painter, sculptor and performance artist. The image of Diana Princess of Wales, as seen through a bespattered car window, is based on a press photograph. Brisley questions the media's dual power to idolize and vilify and its voyeuristic obsession with royal celbrity. This is a study for a painting which Brisley completed a few months before Diana's tragic death in a car accident while
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This work is derived from a common view that the fortunes of the Princess of Wales were influenced by the press. The portrait is derived from an image of Diana on the front page of the Daily Mirror in 1994, 1995 or possibly 96. She is sitting in the driving seat of a car with the window up in the rain. The drips of rain are caught running down the window of the drivers door. She is looking into the night. She appears as passive and isolated inside the metal box and yet at the
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Performance duration: 3 Days
Objects used: 1 print of an xray of my skull after a car crash in 1979. 1 painting of a skull. A prefabricated hut of plywood.
Actions involved induced relationships between the above elements finally culminating in the assembly of the hut. Performance involved speech relating to the elements.
A permanent work was to be assembled incorporating the two skull images. A video of the performance would be placed inside the hut.
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A group of five paintings of roses represented upside down as an homage to Rosa Luxemburg, anticipating a series of flower paintings made between 1999 and 2005.
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Click here to watch the video As with some of my work Sweating the Hole comes from an everyday event. In the winter of 1995/6 we were plagued by an invasion of mice in our 300 year old house in east London. We had a large dog at the time, a Turkish Kangal, traditionally used in Turkey as a guard dog. Its diet was simple, and evidently attractive to mice. The situation rapidly deteriorated as the mice must have been breeding apace. Unfortunately all the hardware stores in the local
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Click here to watch the video Black Red and White takes place in a small room in which are displayed prints of opera singers. Its materials and tools are an easel on which a board is placed and attached to it is a circular unframed mirror in the centre of which is a black painted circle the size of a small dinner plate. By the side is a table containing cans of black red and white water soluble paint and one or two brushes. The floor is covered with newspapers. The protagonist
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This work is comprised of two images one derived from the other. One refers to the overall subject Bloody Sunday, and utilises the naming of that day. I took the names of the days of the week and repeated them on the grounds that the aftermath of Bloody Sunday resonates from day to day. By turning the letters and words upside down , inside out and back to front I tried to express how rationality in crisis can be turned on its head. The drawing repeats the words of the week