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Work by Title

• A Cycle of Events1971
• An Indo-Chinese Pun-Sculpture1973
• Drawing The Iron Curtain1972
• Drawing a Lesson from History1974
• Hagia Sophia, Istanbul1977
• Headcase, Bookcase1970
• In Flanders Fields1979
• Largess1972
• Letters to The Sunday Times1971
• Normal Levels of Intelligence1970
• Red Square1976
• Self-Portrait: The Mad Dog of Europe1972
• Self-Portrait: Vaughan Grylls and his Scriptwriters1972
• Self-Portrait: Washington, DC1973
• Seventh Kolner Kunstmarkt1973
• State Universal Shop (GUM)1976
• Ten Sitting Rooms Exhibition1970
• The Emperor's New Clothes1970
• The Lenin Museum1976
• The Wailing Wall, Jerusalem1979
• This Is Not An Advertisement1971

Synopsis

In the early years of the decade I continued with Pun-sculptures but decided where I could, to show them outside the conventional art world e.g. Letters to the Sunday Times 1971. But my interest in politics was still around and I combined the two in An Indo-Chinese Pun-Sculpture (1973) which was shown at The Gallery, a gallery of invented conceptual artists, set up by fellow Slade graduate Nicholas Wegner that year. Nicholas asked me to join him as co-director. We ditched the invented artists and became the first and only gallery to have no artists at all. I left the gallery in 1975 and helped run a family company in Nottingham but in 1977 my father died and my work changed gear entirely. I started making huge photo-collages on political themes e.g. The Wailing Wall Jerusalem (1979) and In Flanders Fields (1980).