Culture Shot in the Atrium: God's Wrath by Angus Pryor

All works in this exhibition are transcriptions from biblical texts. Angels of the Apocalypse is derived from the Book of Revelations. Spencer takes the theme as part of a larger picture – literally this was part of a polyptych. Pryor wanted to explore the idea of this “taken text” in a manner that was more secular in its intention and therefore looked closely at and researched Spencer’s work to see how a parody of this painting could be made, bearing in mind the original words within the text and how Spencer had transcribed them. God’s Wrath is therefore a play on Spencer’s original painting in which the angels are represented by homely Cookham housewives adorned with swans’ wings, and God’s wrath is substituted by winged seeds which aid the process of regeneration in an already fertile, pastoral setting. In the painting, a symbol of playfulness is substituted for the Angels, using toys (Space Hoppers) to represent the main figures.

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