James McQueen | Shit Happens Protest Art

James McQueen | Shit Happens Protest ArtJames McQueen Shit Happens (2024) Limited edition Shit Happens is one of the oldest and most philosophically precise pieces of vernacular wisdom the acknowledgment that bad things occur without cause, without justice, and without the possibility of adequate response. McQueen's 2024 version brings his layered, lacquered technique to this observation with the formal authority of his Penguin book cover aesthetic: the phrase that has always been on bumper

the sculpture takes this linguistic proposition into three-dimensional space — the basketball as a carrier of both the sporting aspiration and the artistic declaration

Written by John Lennon for the 1969 Abbey Road album

more resolved version of the initial proposition

Laminated giclée print on aluminium composite panel screenprinted with glitter

The gold variant carries the palette of aspiration and the prize worth striving for

The date embedded in the title gives the work its historical anchor: love wins

The Future Is Yours is among his most directly optimistic works

available exclusively at Creed Gallery Ascot

of Woodstock

His British landscape practice is rooted in sustained observation of the actual countryside

His practice connects to the great tradition of British landscape art — the light of Constable

Watkins brings to this subject the personal investment of someone with deep roots in Welsh landscape — a terrain whose specific quality of light