Claire Douglass’s giant vista of ‘late-stage capitalism in frightening times’ features many city notables, including Joe Lycett clutching a carrier bag
fabulous painted imagining of Birmingham street life, you will find our guest editor, Joe Lycett. He’s in a rainbow-coloured coat, clutching a Tesco bag. Speaking about Douglass’s last large-scale canvas – that– Lycett suggested he was more than thrilled to have been included in the latest depiction of his home city. “I was a fan of Claire’s before this happened,” he said, “but I am so proud of the fact that I’d been considered part of this community and culture.
The work started out, Douglass says, “as a simple look at our working lives,” but it has evolved “to become a tableau of late-stage capitalism during frightening and turbulent times”. She imagines her paintings with a distant future audience in mind, trying to learn the ways in which we lived and worked, before climate catastrophe altered our world for ever.
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