Clowning Around #1 by Jason Batchelor

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The image of a clown pulling his own eye out with a silver plated dinner fork, represents frustrations and self destructive behaviours by a person who has come from place of relative privilege.
The work is auto biographical; brutal; and employs lurid colour choices

The image of a clown pulling his own eye out with a silver plated dinner fork, represents frustrations and self destructive behaviours by a person who has come from place of relative privilege.
The work is auto biographical; brutal; and employs lurid colour choices

The image of a clown pulling his own eye out with a silver plated dinner fork, represents frustrations and self destructive behaviours by a person who has come from place of relative privilege.
The work is auto biographical; brutal; and employs lurid colour choices

The image of a clown pulling his own eye out with a silver plated dinner fork, represents frustrations and self destructive behaviours by a person who has come from place of relative privilege.
The work is auto biographical; brutal; and employs lurid colour choices

The image of a clown pulling his own eye out with a silver plated dinner fork, represents frustrations and self destructive behaviours by a person who has come from place of relative privilege.
The work is auto biographical; brutal; and employs lurid colour choices

The image of a clown pulling his own eye out with a silver plated dinner fork, represents frustrations and self destructive behaviours by a person who has come from place of relative privilege.
The work is auto biographical; brutal; and employs lurid colour choices

The image of a clown pulling his own eye out with a silver plated dinner fork, represents frustrations and self destructive behaviours by a person who has come from place of relative privilege.
The work is auto biographical; brutal; and employs lurid colour choices

Jason Batchelor
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Oil on stretched canvas, ready to hang.

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Painted in prison, CLOWNING AROUND #1 is the first of three paintings that react to the idiocies of the prison environment.
The onslaught of crazy and stupid behaviours witnessed ad nauseam, are enough to motivate one to pull one's own eye out.
Painted during a period when prison work brought me into contact with large cross section of the prison population.
The daily stupidity witnessed was emblematic of the the behaviours that saw us all initially incarcerated.
Frustration is the over-riding emotion being expressed.
Frustration at myself. and frustration at my fellow man.

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Art Spectrum oil paints, applied with brush and palette knife

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People & Portrait Art, Culture Art, Men Art

#clown, #psycho, #prison, #prisonart, #satirical, #socialcommentary, #political, #light green, #light blue

Jason Batchelor
5 artworks

Top right of biography, Australia

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