Artwork description:

This is a netmesh screenprint I produced back when the attack on the Ukraine began. I was shocked like many others and I wanted to record this event as a print. I wanted to bring together various elements to form images with juxtaposed imagery on top of one another, forming images that express how I felt about the whole event happening in a fellow European country.

This image brings together the headless Bertram De Born from Dante's Inferno, who holds his head aloft like a lantern, who previously persuaded a young king to kill his father. Because in turning a son against his father he "sundered those that should be one," (28.139) his body is now severed in two instead of together as one. An allegory of Russia and the Ukraine, in that Russia is seeking to split Ukraine into two parts.

The layered image is a citizen from the Ukraine surrounded by the destruction of her building.

I have used net curtains as the screen to highlight the destruction of people's homes and printed using the colours of the Ukranian flag.

These images have lead to a series of images exploring the conflict which is still happening after many months.

Materials used:

Silkscreen acrylic ink on cartridge paper.