I don't usually do this
About this artwork
This work featured in Owen’s final year exhibition at Edinburgh College of Art and was awarded the Gallery’s John Watson Prize (named after the school building which now houses the Gallery of Modern Art One). It was subsequently purchased for the Gallery of Modern Art’s collection. Owen has made several variants of this work, some painted directly onto the wall. The hands were traced from a pornographic magazine, and Owen has commented: ‘They’re specifically male hands and I wanted to arrange them in a way which might perhaps resemble a kind of sign language; so they might read like a text.’
Updated before 2020
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artist:Jonathan Owen (born 1973) British
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title:I don't usually do this
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date created:2000 - 2001
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materials:Acrylic on board
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measurements:61.00 x 204.80 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Purchased with donations from the public 2001
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accession number:GMA 4390
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gallery:
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
Jonathan Owen
Jonathan Owen
Jonathan Owen was born in Liverpool. He studied Fine Art at Leeds Metropolitan University and obtained an MFA from Edinburgh College of Art in 2000. Owen’s art is about transformation: often using an ordinary rubber to erase parts of photographic images found in books. This systematic removal...