1,316 handmade badges depicting Western glamour imagery and iconic Playboy covers.
Oil and acrylic paint with aerosol finishing.
Wonder Woman stems from classical philosophy; beauty = truth. The piece focuses on the sexual mass consumption that has manipulated the female form to an extent that the beauty we see is distorted. The defacing of the ‘Glamour’ imagery used within this piece questions where the power of sexual attraction sits – in the real or the fake?
Size 100 cm x 140cm
Produced using four different grey tones of Lego bricks. 12,000+ Lego bricks in total.
1,875 handmade badges – with special thanks to artist Richard Phillips without whom this piece wouldn’t have been possible
Comission of Charles Augustus Lindbergh / American aviator produced using 1,524 handmade badges depicting modern culture and aviation imagery.
Stainless steel ball bearing on rubber with aerosol finishing
2,435 handmade badges depicting modern day culture imagery.
Produced using approximately 57,000 (alot!) stainless steel ball bearings on rubber, mounted on aluminum.
