Mandy McCartin
All these paintings are of real people living on the edges of society, emotional moments in the struggle to survive.
ANOTHER NIGHT was inspired by the |
As an artist with a working class background, I have always made work about real life which I hope will communicate to any audience. However I eventually discovered that this attitude was not the key to artworld success—quite the opposite in fact. I should have been making art about art, the more obscure and pseudo-intellectual the better. Consequently, as I refuse to sell out, I find myself without a gallery or agent to help me promote and sell my work. So if any of you viewing this site have got any ideas, please e-mail me. And if there are any people with the money to buy large paintings who are not afraid of uncompromising imagery ... I can be contacted at Wordpress. |
SITE SPECIFIC The title is a pun on conceptual art—the site in this painting is an Irish traveller campsite in the East End of London. |
RESCUE ME I saw a moment of tenderness for a sick pigeon from a hard-looking man who looked in need of care himself. |
