Child Palace, 2008-2010

Balance Boys 2, 2010

resin, relief print, acrylic paint,

30x40x3cm

Child Palace, or “Zigong” comes from the characters which make up “womb.” Globalisation has created a sort of misguided playland with thinly veiled neocolonialist intention with unrestrained development, loss of individual economic and political power, and the creation of an elite, protected class. Child Palace is an exploration of this elite class – existing in a separate construct from the vast majority, increasingly comfortable in an imposed landscape of grids, manufactured substances, and plastic environments.