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Marcelle Hanselaar?dutch
Child Soldier Standing
2013
Signed artist proof
Framed
Etching on newsprint
65 x 55 cm
Guide Price £850
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Born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Marcelle
studied briefly at the Royal Academy of Arts in
The Hague. She now lives and works in London.
Her work as a painter and an etcher is often
quite dark. She has won many international
awards both in painting and printmaking and has
work held in many collections such as the British
Museum Prints Collection, V&A Prints
Collection, V&A National Art Library, Ashmolean
Museum and New Hall Art Collection, Cambridge.
www.marcellehanselaar.com
In my studio hangs a photocopy of a painting Head of a Negro by the
17th Century Dutch artist Govert Flinck. What makes it so striking is
that this obviously high-ranking military man is portrayed facing away
from the viewer. My series on child soldiers was inspired by this
painting, coupled with reading about the horrific use of child soldiers in
Josef Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army. Young children who, through
kidnapping, deprivation, drugs and trauma are terrorised into becoming
feral killing machines. The combination of isolation, ignorance
and mindless violence makes us not only vulnerable to manipulation,
but seriously damages both collective and individual growth.
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