PAPER PRINTS

A2 :: 409 x 594mm     // Limited Edition :: 50

A1 :: 580 x 841mm      // Limited Edition :: 25

A0 :: 820 x 1189mm    // Limited Edition :: 10

Marmite is lively celebration of iconic brands and the pin-up girl era.  Travel back with me to the 40 and 50s, and celebrate the heaven-sent knockouts of the period, whose images were made for slapdash display, flaunted on calendars and held pride-of-place on the wall of the mechanic's workshop.  I've painted these lovely ladies combining their alluring curves with some of the things we hold dear.  The result is a sexy blend of nostalgia and of the most enduring combination of all - sex and selling.

This brewing by-product turned toast topper has achieved cult status since 1905.  The company's "Love it or hate it" ad campaign is bang on the money recently being recognised as a snowclone. The tagline replaced "My Mate, Marmite" as I remember it from the 80s. The growing up spread you never grow out of. Those who love it don't just want to eat it - Eat Marmite? They want to bathe in it, wallow like a hippo in mud in it.