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Oil on Canvas,
60 x 50cm,
2024,
Messenger follows Pushinka’s unusual path: her mother began life as a stray on the streets of Moscow, was later sent into space, and then placed into a controlled breeding programme that produced Pushinka. Gifted to US President John F. Kennedy as a diplomatic trophy during the Cold War, Pushinka became part of the Kennedy household - dressed in tutus by a young Caroline Kennedy. The painting reflects on this unlikely journey, considering how animals are carried through human histories and reshaped by the stories we attach to them.
‘The Space Dogs series examines the emotional and ethical tensions in how we relate to animals, drawing on the histories and myths of the Soviet space dogs. These paintings hover between tenderness and control, presenting dogs as vulnerable, spectral figures shaped by human stories. Blending fact, folklore, and memory, the works reflect on agency, dependence, and the quiet costs of domestication - asking what our stories about animals reveal about us.’
Oil on Canvas,
60 x 50cm,
2024,
Messenger follows Pushinka’s unusual path: her mother began life as a stray on the streets of Moscow, was later sent into space, and then placed into a controlled breeding programme that produced Pushinka. Gifted to US President John F. Kennedy as a diplomatic trophy during the Cold War, Pushinka became part of the Kennedy household - dressed in tutus by a young Caroline Kennedy. The painting reflects on this unlikely journey, considering how animals are carried through human histories and reshaped by the stories we attach to them.
‘The Space Dogs series examines the emotional and ethical tensions in how we relate to animals, drawing on the histories and myths of the Soviet space dogs. These paintings hover between tenderness and control, presenting dogs as vulnerable, spectral figures shaped by human stories. Blending fact, folklore, and memory, the works reflect on agency, dependence, and the quiet costs of domestication - asking what our stories about animals reveal about us.’