Queen Of Mass Contamination
by Jimmy Cauty.
Limited Edition of 250
Negatively Positive
Positively Negative
Jimmy CAUTY’s iconic Queen in a Gas Mask, subtly altered to suit the current Covidian Climate of Fear and to commemorate Covidian Culture.
Given the latest scientific opinion, the artist has decided full face gas masks are far more effective than N-95s and should be worn by all heads of state and political leaders at all times.
Blow-up
on ‘Queen Of Mass Contamination’
Sulphurous Degenerate Art Or Anarchy Threat For The UK?
Cauty’s iconic Queen in a Gas Mask stamp design was first issued in 2003 as 1st, 2nd and 3rd class Stamps of Mass Destruction following the media scare that Saddam Hussein could attack London with chemical weapons and a few weeks before the invasion of Iraq.
The 4th, 5th and 6th Stamps of Mass Destruction were issued in 2004 to mark the continuation of the “War on Terror”.
Royal Mail attempted to ban the stamps, claiming that the picture breached their copyright, resulting in many of the editions been sent off to be destroyed .
Never shy of controversy and promoting artistic freedom, Jimmy Cauty releases variations of the Stamps over time.
“"I am just an outsider artist doing my job. Are the Royal Mail trying to infringe my artistic freedom?.”
— Jimmy CAUTY
Other Notable Artworks
by Jimmy Cauty
The Aftermath Dislocation Principle (ADP).
In 2013 Cauty completed The Aftermath Dislocation Principle (ADP), a vast scale-model landscape which has been completely looted, destroyed, burnt and is devoid of life apart from 3 000 or so model police that attend this apocalyptic aftermath. In 2015 the ADP was installed in Banksy’s bemusement park Dismaland.
The sculpture was created from modified miniature railway figures and detailed the chaotic aftermath of a devastating riot.
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WARNING
Each print is unique with significant variation in offsetting, misprinting, smudging, marks, tears and creases. These so-called ‘defects’ are intentional and inherent to the hand-made nature of the work and the production process. These marks are testament to works made by vandals, hooligans, and specially untrained technicians.
YEAR
2020
TECHNIQUE
4-color screen print
Negatively Positive: Pearl black, yellow & magenta on pearl silver/white
Positively Negative: Pearl silver/white, magenta & yellow on pearl black
EDITION SIZE
250
DIMENSIONS
43 cm x 62 cm | 17.00 in. x 24.50 in
PAPER
Recycled 1200 micron grey pulp card
SIGNATURE
Being signed and numbered by the artist
CONDITION
Work sold in perfect condition
FRAME
No, so you can get it framed as you like
SHIPPING
Will be extremely well packed in a flat package to ensure safe delivery
PRICE.
On demand
Bio
Over a diverse and productive career, Jimmy CAUTY (also known as Rockman Rock) has distinguished himself as a musician, record producer, artist and cultural provocateur through fusions of high art, low art and popularist mediums to spectacular effect.
From experimental sonic weapons (the Advanced Acoustic Armaments), to anti-Iraq war postage stamps (Stamps of Mass Destruction), and model making (Riot In A Jam Jar and the Aftermath Dislocation Principle) Cauty’s work combines dissent, cultural subversion and gleeful level of high humour.
His roguish and voluble approach has earned him a cult following for work that remains radical, responsive and darkly comical. He produces work that draws on and responds to contemporary culture, sampling it and selling it back as recoded realities.
Cauty is also known for being one half of The KLF, the 90s cult electro-pop band who famously burnt £1,000,000 on the Scottish isle of Jura.