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Thumbnails of Eddie Mccarten's Paintings and Limited Edition Prints |
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The Counting House Series 1of3 |
The Counting House Series 2of3 |
The Counting House Series 3of3 |
The Juggler |
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The Triumph of the West |
The Wolf Time and the City |
Walking The Line |
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EDWARD McCARTEN Post Graduate Printmaking (Slade School of Fine Art) 1993-1995 Edward McCarten was born in Glasgow, but educated in London at St Martin's & The Slade School of Fine Art. He is presently employed as an artist in residence working in the North Prospect area of Plymouth and a visiting lecturer in Fine Art studies at Saltash College of Further Education. He has exhibited in Germany, Canada, the United States, Taiwan and extensively at home in the UK. THE COUNTING HOUSE SERIES The counting house is a body of work, which reflects through symbolism and metaphor the second verse of the nursery rhyme 'sing a song of sixpence' and an autobiography of a survivor of Auschwitz. I used the dark mythology of blackbirds or any member of the crow family to visualise the brutality of any ideology or counting house where people became no longer human but merely numbers. However these images are not specifically Nazi. Counting houses did not begin with Nazi Germany and have proliferated in the post world war. Pol Pot, Sadam and innumerable dictatorships in South America demonstrate only too clearly that counting houses are still very much with us. |