Shoal Arts

Artist: Jonathan Kelham

Title: Two Tarts
Medium: Inkjet Print on Bible Paper 2015

 

The overarching practical research is entitled Leaders of Men. This proposes to question why specific individuals have purposely sought to construct an intentionally specific romanticised notion of a quintessential English portrayal. This particular conception of Englishness refers to a nostalgic, mythologised portrayal, surrounding ideas of the melancholic, awkward outsider, yet maintaining an egotistical bordering on narcissistic characteristic. Philip Larkin the Lone Ranger, Joe Orton Paddington Bear, Ian Curtis Officer Dibble, Alfred Hitchcock Captain Pugwash and more...