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Lot 51CONTEMPORARY BRITISH PRINTS FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
GRAYSON PERRY (B. 1960)
Selfie with Political Causes
Closed28 September 2023
Price Realised
GBP 15,120
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Specialist note
“I made this print for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition that I curated in 2018. The RA has these arcane rules written into its constitution, one of which is that there have to be a certain number of painters, sculptors, architects and printmakers among the Academicians at any one time. Somewhat bizarrely, I was elected as a printmaker - so I thought I'd better make a print!
The image was inspired by an Indian miniature I saw: an equestrian portrait where the horse was enormous and the person sitting on it was tiny. I was also playing with the idea of riding a machine that has righteousness on its side - social justice and equality - trampling over things like racisms, sexism, poverty and homophobia with its big spiked tyres. The unhelpful toxic waste coming out of the machine is tolerance, free speech and democracy - things that the social-justice warriors really struggle with.`~~”
– Grayson Perry
The image was inspired by an Indian miniature I saw: an equestrian portrait where the horse was enormous and the person sitting on it was tiny. I was also playing with the idea of riding a machine that has righteousness on its side - social justice and equality - trampling over things like racisms, sexism, poverty and homophobia with its big spiked tyres. The unhelpful toxic waste coming out of the machine is tolerance, free speech and democracy - things that the social-justice warriors really struggle with.`~~”
– Grayson Perry