(untitled) Red by David Mitchell (UEL)

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Medium: Mixed media
Dimensions (H/W/D): 172 by 172 by 4 cm.
Year made: 2007
Framed: Unframed
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“Red is London’s colour. The cabs of the early nineteenth century were red. The pillar boxes are red. The telephone boxes were, until recently, red. The buses are characteristically still red. The underground trains were once generally of that colour. The tiles of Roman London were red. The original wall of London was built from red sandstone. London Bridge itself was reputed to be imbued with red, ‘bespattered with the blood of little children’ as part of the ancient rituals of building. Red is also the colour of violence.” (Peter Ackoyd ‘London: The Biography).

Collage & Mixed Media.

Collage contains some explicit imagery.

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David Mitchell (UEL)

Education
- 2008 BA Fine Art University of East London

Exhibition History
- November/December 2007 Group Show. The Empire Gallery, Vyner Street, London

My work is about capturing the aura of a city, the zeitgeist. I have been conducting studies into London's energy and the way that sounds that are reminiscent of a certain place filter through into music (West Coast Hip-Hop in Los Angeles/East Coast Hip-Hop in New York, Grime/Dubstep/Drum n Bass in London). My...

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