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"this is the end of you"
"this is the end of you"
"this is the end of you"

"this is the end of you"

Artist (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.
Copyright© Katherine Aarrestad (2008)
LocationOn Display - Gallery 01
Object numberABDAG014498
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.
More About Me

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
The Winged And Poppied Sleep
The Winged And Poppied Sleep
Simeon Solomon
1889
Kate Nickleby
Kate Nickleby
John Phillip
1862
Mignon - from Wilhelm Meister by Goethe
Mignon - from Wilhelm Meister by Goethe
Prince Albert
1841
Front of Photograph
Carte de Visite of a Seated Woman and Standing Man
1860s
Front of Photograph
Carte de Visite of a Young Girl
1860s
Front of Photograph
Carte de Visite of a Standing Woman
c. 1870
Woman Reclining on Couch with an Open Book on Her Lap
Woman Reclining on Couch with an Open Book on Her Lap
James McBey
1922
Image Not Available for Untitled (Unused proof from “images inspired by the Old Man and The Sea”)
Untitled (Unused proof from “images inspired by the Old Man and The Sea”)
John Bellany
1987
Image Not Available for Untitled [Naked Woman with Animal on her Head] (Unused print from “images inspired by the Old Man and The Sea”)
Untitled [Naked Woman with Animal on her Head] (Unused print from “images inspired by the Old Man and The Sea”)
John Bellany
1987
Image Not Available for Untitled [Naked Woman with Animal on her Head] (Unused proof from “images inspired by the Old Man and The Sea”)
Untitled [Naked Woman with Animal on her Head] (Unused proof from “images inspired by the Old Man and The Sea”)
John Bellany
1987
Image Not Available for Untitled [Naked Woman with Fish on her Head] (Unused proof from “images inspired by the Old Man and The Sea”)
Untitled [Naked Woman with Fish on her Head] (Unused proof from “images inspired by the Old Man and The Sea”)
John Bellany
1987
Image Not Available for Trollope's Framley Parsonage
Trollope's Framley Parsonage
Sir John Everett Millais
1861
Carte de Visite - Unidentified Portrait of Two Women and a Man
Carte de Visite - Unidentified Portrait of Two Women and a Man
George Washington Wilson
1860s
Front of Photograph
Carte De Visite of Miss Gordon
George Washington Wilson
1860s
Carte de Visite - Unidentified Portrait of an Elderly Woman
Carte de Visite - Unidentified Portrait of an Elderly Woman
George Washington Wilson
1860s
Carte de Visite of a Child on a Balcony
Carte de Visite of a Child on a Balcony
George Washington Wilson
1860s
Carte de Visite - Unidentified Portrait of a Young Woman
Carte de Visite - Unidentified Portrait of a Young Woman
George Washington Wilson
1860s
Front of Photograph
Carte de Viste of a Standing Elderly Woman
Andrew Adams
1858-1878
The Duel (from St Ronans Well)
The Duel (from St Ronans Well)
Robert Walker Macbeth
1875-1899
Tasso in Disguise Relating his Persecutions to his Sister
Tasso in Disguise Relating his Persecutions to his Sister
John Phillip
c. 1840
Sketch for a Literary Subject
Sketch for a Literary Subject
John Phillip
Sunset Song No. 2
Sunset Song No. 2
Ian Fleming
c.1971
Image Not Available for Moxon's Tennyson
Moxon's Tennyson
William Mulready
Image Not Available for Portrait of a man (Copper plate related to John Bellany's prints inspired by Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea)
Portrait of a man (Copper plate related to John Bellany's prints inspired by Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea)
John Bellany
1987