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Someone Save The Queen

Someone Save The Queen, 1994

Tony Alcock

Mixed media

  Original Sculpture, 49 x 93.2 x 8.6 cm

  Unique Edition, 1 of 1

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Artist

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 recognized as an original and practicing 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, became a music shop owner and eventually worked in a successful graphics based company, MOGO UK. From 1993, I was able to reactivate my artistic ambitions, identifying myself as AMA, I've always liked the symmetry of my initials. Most all the work on this Artlimes website will have been 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 first born, William. The present and past are hereby tied together by fine lines and chains maintaining a precarious balance.

The linearity of these relationships is emphasized 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, none the less.
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