James McQueen | Shit Happens Protest Art Watkins brings to this subject

Watkins brings to this subject the personal investment of someone with deep roots in Welsh landscape — a terrain whose specific quality of light

His practice connects to the great tradition of British landscape art — the light of Constable

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the sculpture takes this linguistic proposition into three-dimensional space — the basketball as a carrier of both the sporting aspiration and the artistic declaration

James McQueen | Shit Happens Protest Art Watkins brings to this subjectJames McQueen Shit Happens (2024) Limited edition Shit Happens is one of the oldest and most philosophically precise pieces of vernacular wisdom the acknowledgment that bad things occur without cause, without justice, and without the possibility of adequate response. McQueen's 2024 version brings his layered, lacquered technique to this observation with the formal authority of his Penguin book cover aesthetic: the phrase that has always been on bumper