The Towering Infernos was painted around a year after the Grenfell Tower fire in London, where 72 people died and 151 homes were destroyed. The artist states how he "hadn’t intended on making work about the disaster, but [he] had written the text in a notebook and kept coming back to it. As more information surrounding the fire came to light, the more it seemed important to draw people back to it. Not only to draw attention to the residents of the tower who were still suffering, but to the decision making surrounding housing in the UK and to the state of current housing. The initial fire was caused by an electrical fault in a fridge, however it spread so quickly and violently due to an extremely combustible cladding which had been added to the building. Five years after the Grenfell fire, in 2022, LBC and The Big Issue reported that there were almost 10,000 residential buildings in the UK which still have dangerous cladding on." This work was selected as part of the 2019 Bloomberg New Contemporaries.
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Liam Clark
Liam Ashley Clark was born In Ipswich, Suffolk, 1990 and is currently living and working in Norwich, Norfolk. Clark was selected as a 2019 Bloomberg New Contemporary and included in the Saatchi Art Rising Stars report of the same year. He works largely in painting, drawing and photography, as well as in collage, 3D and more. Clark also produces large scale murals, works as an illustrator and is a prolific zine maker.
His work takes influence from the D.I.Y. cultures and creators of skateboarding, punk, hip-hop and folk scenes and is inspired by a wide spectrum of interests including; politics, society, psychology, current events, youth culture and more. Clark's work is also influenced by other contemporary and historical practices, it commonly contains a combination of image and text, a large use of colour and pattern, and often has an injection of humour.
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Print medium: Printed, using the giclée method, on Canson Aquarelle Rag fine art paper. This genuine 100% rag, 310gsm, watercolour paper possesses a unique structure, surface texture and warm white tone and gives a unique and unrivalled character to the Fine Art reproduction. It complies with the highest archival standards and is extremely age resistant.
Frame: Artwork is printed without a frame.
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