His childhood, 1967

This artwork explores the containment of a boy’s childhood and extracts stereotypical images of ‘childhood’ itself. The images suggest that the legacy of this boy would lie in his childhood and that his past could be framed by his toys and playful habits. Extrapolating the style of Cherry Hood and Del Kathryn Barton, watercoloured drips and fineline add structure to each illustration, but also emphasise the notion of the past, how the representation of a person is more effective through old,innanimate objects. In this work, the boyish colours and almost computer animated images gives shape to lost memories that visualise the changing of childhood conventions, the modernisation of children’s toys and the structure of memory.