Artist Will Let You Buy ‘ENGLAND’ For £9.99 So Long As You’re Not Theresa May
Image by Stuart Semple and featured with permission
Artist Stuart Semple is back at it again but this time, it involves neither arch nemesis-cum-fellow artist Anish Kapoor, nor Semple’s previous color-changing rainbow paints.
Semple’s latest work will let you, and anyone around the world for that matter, buy ‘ENGLAND’ online for £9.99 (US$13) per 1/4lb, so long as you are not British Prime Minister Theresa May.
“ENGLAND is 100% pure English soil, beautifully packaged in a gorgeous hot-foil embossed box. The first 500 packages are signed and numbered by the artist.”
“Purchasers are required to agree to a legal declaration during the checkout process that ‘By adding ENGLAND to your cart you confirm that you are not Theresa May, you are in no way affiliated to Theresa May and to the best of your knowledge information and belief ENGLAND will not make it’s way into the hands of Theresa May.’”
‘ENGLAND’ mirrors Semple’s ‘BLACK 2.0’, ‘PHAZE’ and ‘SHIFT’—all statements made against Kapoor—where the creation goes beyond just being an innocuous box of soil, but rather a satire that questions the privatization of public space, risky overseas investment and post Brexit isolationism.
Semple expresses in a press release, “I’m really excited to be able to be able to share England with the whole world. It’s fantastic that now you don’t have to be an Oligarch or mega tycoon to get in on the action! I’m stacking England high and selling it off cheap, when it’s gone it’s gone!”
Get your 1/4lb of pure ‘ENGLAND’ here.
Image by Stuart Semple and featured with permission
Image by Stuart Semple and featured with permission
[via press release]
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