"this is the end of you"

Artist Katharine Aarrestad (Haslemere, England, born 1968)

Date2008

Mediummixed media (acrylic enamel on sheet metal)

ClassificationsPaintings And Drawings

DimensionsSight Size: 58.7 x 58.7cm
Frame Size: 63 x 63cm

AcquisitionPresented in 2008 by Shell UK Limited in celebration of 25 years of Shell support of Aberdeen Artists Society Annual Exhibition.

LocationOn Display - Gallery 01

Object numberABDAG014498

Keywords

About MeAarrestad’s works compellingly skirt familiar images of popular culture, but there are no clues to help us interpret them. Perceiving this nostalgic image through the cynical lens of the present, its meaning is further complicated and opened up, especially with the new, added context of the potentially threatening title and the unknown speaker: is the young girl being threatened? Or is it her who utters the threat?

Presented in May 2008 by Shell UK Limited in celebration of 25 years of Shell support of Aberdeen Artists Society Annual Exhibition.
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Even though you might immediately think of Alice in Wonderland, Aarrestad explains that this work “could be linked to any number of European fairy-tale girls who strangely all tend to have long blond hair”.

Exhibitions

Gallery 01 - Collecting Art