Brendon Sellar – Torch

$390

“No guinea of earned money should go to rebuilding the college on the old plan just as certainly none could be spent upon building a college upon a new plan: therefore the guinea should be earmarked “Rags. Petrol. Matches.” And this note should be attached to it. “Take this guinea and with it burn the college to the ground. Set fire to the old hypocrisies. Let the light of the burning building scare the nightingales and incarnadine the willows.”

Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas. Cited in Jacques Derrida, Cinders.

Throughout the 1930s Virginia Woolf collected newspaper articles, manifestos promoting social change, speeches by ideologues and politicians, and clerical announcements. These fragmentary texts (including memoirs and letters) were assembled across three chaotic, yet carefully indexed scrapbooks. Woolf’s fascination with the ironies and private events during the interwar period provided a critique of inherited structures (and her urge to reject established loyalties). Through this prompt, the melancholy trope of a torch singer appears as both provocateur and harbinger – rising from the ash-laden edges of Woolf’s unavowable work on the nature of war and education.

Size: 510mm x 400mm

Medium: Digital modelling/painting - print on ACM board

Status: For Sale

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