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Someone Save The Queen, 1994

Tony Alcock

Original sculpture49 x 93.2 x 8.6 cm10 kg

Mixed media

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About Tony Alcock

I was born in Nottingham (UK) in June 1947. My post-school art education included a Pre-Dip at Loughborough followed by studying Fine Art / Painting at Leicester Polytechnic. After graduating and producing my 'Light Organ', I enjoyed a couple of years being recognised as an original and practising artist in the UK. However, I chose to pursue life as a teacher, gaining a PGCE from Bristol University, where I later briefly lectured in Art education.

Circumstances changed and I found myself working as a musician, becoming a music shop owner and eventually working in a successful graphics-based company, MOGO UK. From 1993 I was able to reactivate my artistic ambitions. I identified myself as AMA; I've always liked the symmetry of my initials. Most of the work on this Artlimes website was produced after 1993.

Sculpture

About this sculpture

This work is not intended as a panegyric to the British Royal Family, but the random selection of objects adorning Her Majesty’s presence came to suggest the theme of progeniture. In this proud depiction of the Queen, H.M. wears ribbons bearing medallions of her father and grandfather, whilst beside her, placed on a scaffold, is an image of her first son, Charles, with his then wife, Diana, and their firstborn, William. The present and past are hereby tied together by fine lines and chains, maintaining a precarious balance.

The linearity of these relationships is emphasised by the metaphor of a fishing float and a sinker held in suspension, together with a semi-protected phallic object loosely tied to an anchor point; a skull-like object hovers above the monarch’s head.

Above all this is a light source; by pulling on the chain, extending below the ‘scaffold’, the spectator may further illuminate and modify this composition, a sort of feeble gesture, but it does allow some involvement with this privileged family, nonetheless.
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