BLOW UP
This piece of work is in response to Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1966 psychological mystery film, BLOW UP. My intention was to communicate Christopher Booker’s ideas of the superficiality of swinging London through the lens of Antonioni’s film making. Using a two layer screen print, a popular process of the time, and taking inspiration from 1960s LIFE magazines and David Bailey’s box of pin ups, I illustrated iconic faces of 1966. Drawing people from both the film and popular culture: the Kray twins, Francoise Hardy, David Hemmings, Jane Birkin, Cher, Twiggy, Mick Jagger, Vanessa Redgrave, Marianne Faithfull, Veruschka von Lehndorff, Gillian Hills, Jim Morrison, Jean Shrimpton, Pete Townshend!
