by Dom Chastney

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Strange Fruit (123high x 143cm) Acrylic, spray paint and powder pigment paint on canvas

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The Title 'Strange Fruit' makes reference the song performed by Billie Holiday and the photograph of the 1930 lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Marion, who were hung from the bow of a tree. It was not my intention to make a work about this but as the painting developed from a composition of two hills and a suspended moon, the imagery - the pointy Klan hood shape, the cross, the predominance of red, yellow and black- colours of blood, fire and death lead me to this narrative.

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