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Contemporary British Artist

Touching Angels (Iraq)

Touching Angels (Iraq)
152cm x 122cm
Mixed Media on Canvas

Touching Angels (Iraq) considers issues of disablement from a Global perspective. Rachel Gadsden, through her art practice, endeavors to look beyond her own personal disability to consider universal fragility and survival. Rachel spent her childhood living in Kuwait and visited Iraq on a number of occasions with her family.

Through the Touching Angels (Iraq) painting the viewer senses a rugged desert terrain, littered with toy tanks, guns, dolls and detritus. Embroidered names locate Iraqi towns, and children can be seen emerging from explosive shadows revealing an unfolding apocalyptic landscape, where no one escapes untouched.

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