Anatomy of a politician – shocking pink


In arguably its most vibrant and impactful form, this version of ‘Anatomy of a politician’ has been designed as an eye catching statement piece.

The starting point was a sense of being overwhelmed by the deluge of political promises made by politicians of all parties in the run-up to the 2015 general election. Even without the educated commentary of the political pundits, it was obvious that many of these promises would be broken within days, weeks or months of any party coming to power, such is the two-faced nature of politics in this day and age.

And so ‘Anatomy of a politician’ was conceptually born but what it took to come to fruition was the idea of turning a complete anatomical skeleton into an Airfix model kit design, with the subtle addition of a second skull to indicate two faces. Each individual bone was hand traced from a turn of the century medical drawing and then rearranged into the Airfix model design you see here.

For this particular version, we chose the most shocking colour at our disposal (bright pink) in order to make the finished piece “pop” and grab the attention of anyone in its vicinity. The secondary effect of this is that the space afforded by the solid wood box frame allows different aspects of the design to bend and curl outwards, especially the rib cage, which only serves to heighten its impact.

Signed by the artists, ‘Anatomy of a politician’ is a genuine 1/1 original hand cut, papercut, back mounted on archival quality mountboard and framed in in a black, custom-made solid wood box frame.

Framed dimensions: 625 mm (w) x 870 mm (h)

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