Alex Hayward
2. STEPPING THROUGH THE VOID - Space Oddity, David Bowie, 1969, 2020
Gouache and pencil crayon on paper
Image size: 38 x 63 cm
Frame size: 59 x 83 cm
Frame size: 59 x 83 cm
This work is framed in a dark grey wood frame with a window mount and is glazed. Scan the QR for further details about the work. The artist: 'In 1974,...
This work is framed in a dark grey wood frame with a window mount and is glazed.
Scan the QR for further details about the work.
The artist: "In 1974, my Dad's father passed away suddenly; his mother had recently taken a job in a school hundreds of miles away. He continued to lived for a short time with one of his elder brothers in an otherwise empty house, but this in time was eventually cleared out and sold. In a matter of months, my Dad's life as he had known it had crumbled and gone.
After finishing his O-Levels, he undertook an apprenticeship in cabinet making, supporting himself and living as a lodger. He was fifteen and essentially on his own.
Almost every aspect of this experience is entirely as alien to me as it was to my Dad then; the difference being that he actually had to face it. A small piece of fortune came when he came into some money which, combined with savings, allowed him to buy a house of his own, and begin building some stability. He continued to work as a cabinet maker until 2003, when I was six. "
Scan the QR for further details about the work.
The artist: "In 1974, my Dad's father passed away suddenly; his mother had recently taken a job in a school hundreds of miles away. He continued to lived for a short time with one of his elder brothers in an otherwise empty house, but this in time was eventually cleared out and sold. In a matter of months, my Dad's life as he had known it had crumbled and gone.
After finishing his O-Levels, he undertook an apprenticeship in cabinet making, supporting himself and living as a lodger. He was fifteen and essentially on his own.
Almost every aspect of this experience is entirely as alien to me as it was to my Dad then; the difference being that he actually had to face it. A small piece of fortune came when he came into some money which, combined with savings, allowed him to buy a house of his own, and begin building some stability. He continued to work as a cabinet maker until 2003, when I was six. "
