© Richard Slee
Toby with Airplane
Richard Slee
- Art Funded
- 2004
- Dimensions
- 48 x 40 x 23 cm
- Vendor
- Barrett Marsden Gallery
The Toby jug theme is part of Slee's questioning of Englishness and the continuing or changing meaning of English traditions.
This work is typically ambiguous - is this a grumpy child with a toy plane, or a sort of nursery-rhyme King Kong? The enlarged scale helps to emphasise the strangeness of the Toby jug as an iconic form, like John Bull or Mr Punch.
Provenance
The artist.