Owning The Means (to an end)

2018

Acrylic, oils and mixed media on canvas

1400 x 1000

A monumental Procter & Gamble factory in London becomes the final image in Kid in a Sweet Shop - a stark contrast to the brick buildings and ideals of Cadbury and Bournville. The title plays on the idea of the means of production: who owns the places, systems and industries through which things are made, and what happens to the values that shaped them as ownership and scale change. The factory becomes both a physical monument to industrial power and a symbol of the distance travelled from the social ideals with which the exhibition began.