Biscuit tins

Drawing direct inspiration from English landscape painting from the 18th through 19th centuries, this series of oil paintings explores now nostalgia, memory, and technology intersect with William's (1958) concept of culture as a whole way of life. Each original painting was selected for its affective depictions of English culture as remembered, as natural, or as impacted by technological progress. Importantly, paintings that were representative of works often reproduced on Victorian and 20th century biscuit tins were taken as reference. Mass produced biscuit tins adorned with the works of Constable or Turner became common household items in British homes throughout the 20th century, often re-used as containers for photographs, buttons, wool, and sewing kits.

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Embracing the cyclical commodification of nostalgia as entangled with culture-as-ordinary and with technological progress, this series views gaming paraphernalia as a prevalent form of technological progress in family homes in the 1980s and 1990s. 

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The completed works below include 'Gainsboroughs the Mario Kart', a pastiche of Thomas Gainsborough's 1786 painting 'The Market Cart', and 'Turner's Fighting to be Replayed', a pastiche of JMW Turner's 1838 painting 'The Fighting Téméraire'.