Pen on Cardboard, 2024
The Pugnacious Pyramid was created during the 2024 General Election, responding to the rise of Reform UK. The work is constructed on a pink cardboard pyramid, originally used as packaging for a tile delivery. Repurposing this found material underscores the work’s playful resistance to political gravity.
Lyrics from Shania Twain’s Ka-Ching frame the work within a commentary on money, power, and political ambition, while decorative charms and jewellery signal both the cultural symbolism of wealth and the artist’s own reflections on privilege and distraction.
The work also incorporates adapted text from the late artist Elisabeth Ilsley, whose provocative slogan “Don’t Shag Tories” is reimagined as “Don’t Shag A Reformer” . In doing so, the piece situates itself in a feminist lineage of protest art that uses humour and appropriation to dismantle political authority.
Pen on Cardboard, 2024
The Pugnacious Pyramid was created during the 2024 General Election, responding to the rise of Reform UK. The work is constructed on a pink cardboard pyramid, originally used as packaging for a tile delivery. Repurposing this found material underscores the work’s playful resistance to political gravity.
Lyrics from Shania Twain’s Ka-Ching frame the work within a commentary on money, power, and political ambition, while decorative charms and jewellery signal both the cultural symbolism of wealth and the artist’s own reflections on privilege and distraction.
The work also incorporates adapted text from the late artist Elisabeth Ilsley, whose provocative slogan “Don’t Shag Tories” is reimagined as “Don’t Shag A Reformer” . In doing so, the piece situates itself in a feminist lineage of protest art that uses humour and appropriation to dismantle political authority.
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