Talk and Signing with Peter Kennard

13 Oct 2022 6-8pm

Haywain with Cruise Missiles, 1980

Overview

To coincide with the exhibition Organised Killing, Peter Kennard will give a talk and sign prints of his iconic work Haywain with Cruise Missiles.

Haywain with Cruise Missiles, originally made in 1980, is one of Kennard's most well known works and was purchased by the Tate in 2007. In this subversive photomontage, three nuclear warheads are inserted into the idyllic East Anglian countryside depicted in John Constable's famous painting The Hay Wain of 1821. The impetus for this work was the proposal to house US nuclear cruise missiles in rural East Anglia. It was also a response to a Ministry of Defence leaflet that portrayed the missiles in delicate watercolours.

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