Ralph Steadman: Leaders Series - King & Queen

Ralph Steadman: Leaders Series - King & Queen1 of 8 prints that makes up the Leaders series."I thought I wanted to do a series of things on Leaders. People like Kings & Queens, Presidents, Judges, Assassins anything that somebody would call a leader of something. Some cause or other or even simply an institution, like a judge. It occurred to me that they were in fact compelled to be those leaders through fate alone, so they became victims of fate. It was almost their destiny to be such." Ralph

Made after one of Rae's several journeys by ship to the Arctic

magic and reason

Kenny Hunter studied sculpture at Glasgow School of Art between 1983 and 1987

Taken from our publication “Artists in print: 21 Years of Collaboration” that accompanied the exhibition of the same name celebrating our then Master Printmaker

Michael Waight and the work created with him Donald speaks of his experience:

“Then the Animals said God” opens up a question rather than proclaims a position

5 cm Medium: screenprint Edition Size: Open edition Year: 2018

He feels this works to his advantage in a modern commercial art market

Frances Walker’s submission for the BP mural was a small triptych oil study

“Despite being black and white

Her aim was to make sure she had as much control over the image as possible

Made during a long residency stay with Peacock Visual Arts in the 90's this etching formed part of a larger suite that recognised writers of influence to Ralph