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WRONG RIGHT HAND, 2018
Details
Twelve original collages
Dimensions; h 43cm x w 61cm
Colour Copy premium matt inkjet paper & Epson Durabrite Ink.
(Each also produced as a print edition of 12 on Hahnemuhle German Etching Paper Framed Dims H49 x W66.5 x D3.5 cm)
Wrong Right Hand, Woman Working in Asbestos factory
Wrong Right Hand, Glasgow Museums Collection; Frank Brangwyn Print (nurse feeding blind soldier)
Wrong Right Hand, Mount Stuart Collection; nurse assisting operation in the conservatory
Wrong Right Hand, Conscientious objector gathering moss (Dartmoor Prison)
Wrong Right Hand, Force Feeding in Prison; warden pinning down Suffragette
Wrong Right Hand, German Propaganda Poster; girl gathering nettles
Wrong Right Hand, Nurse fitting ‘The Erskine Leg’
Wrong Right Hand, Glasgow Museums Collection; Frank Brangwyn Print (nurse leading injured soldier during battle)
Wrong Right Hand, German nurse feeding soldier with invalid feeder cup
Wrong Right Hand, French Woman making papier-mâché decoy head
Wrong Right Hand, Amputees making baskets
Wrong Right Hand, Mount Stuart Collection; surgeon operating in the conservatory.
Photography: Keith Hunter
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DESCRIPTION
Wrong Right Hand is a series of collages developed from images contemporaneous with the period between 1914-18, which include a number of found historical and archive images and photographs from Mount Stuart and Glasgow Museums collections.
research/process
Made during WW1 research with the collages of the Dadaist firmly in mind, the figures in the collage swap right hands and arms with the statue of War (Paul Raphael Montford 1868-1938) that stands in front of Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, whose arm was ‘lost’ after the notorious Clydebank blitz in 1941 until retrieval from the River Kelvin by a member of the public during the particularly dry summer of 1995. The arm is now part of an Alasdair Gray mural at the Òran Mór in Glasgow.
