Brexit, Banksy and Cold War Steve
This morning I've spent some time looking at artistic commentary on contemporary life - with
His Twitter feed @Coldwar_Steve is one of the most ironic and funniest comments on Brexit (and we've surely got the bit where we have to laugh rather than cry - whichever side we voted for) and I cannot for the life of me work out why I haven't come across either his website or twitter feed before now
Cold War Steve is the pseudonym of Christopher Spencer who is a collage artist - and extremely good one. He even does it live with cameras filming him!
It's especially poignant that he dedicated himself to his collages as a way of keeping himself busy so as to deal with his mental health issues and the fallout from Brexit.
Seems to me he's becoming the Banksy for the Brexit Years - and like Banksy he has moved into 'selling product'.
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- Cold War Steve and 'McFadden's Cold War'
- Banksy vs Bristol Museum revisited - with Devolved Parliament
Cold War Steve and 'McFadden's Cold War'
Cold War Steve has been acclaimed as the 'Brexit Bruegel' and 'a modern-day Hogarth'. (Thames and Hudson)
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| 'Ship of Fools' (after Hieronymous Bosch) - collage artwork by Coldwar Steve [sold out] |
His Twitter feed @Coldwar_Steve is one of the most ironic and funniest comments on Brexit (and we've surely got the bit where we have to laugh rather than cry - whichever side we voted for) and I cannot for the life of me work out why I haven't come across either his website or twitter feed before now
Coldwar Steve, also known as Cold War Steve, is the nom de plume of Christopher Spencer, a British collage artist and satirist. He is the creator of the Twitter feed McFadden's Cold War. The work features photomontages of celebrities with Eastenders actor Steve McFadden as his character of Phil Mitchell. The work typically shows a grim, dystopian location in England, populated by British media figures and politicians, with McFadden being the constant, usually looking on in disgust at the scene he is viewing. His work has been described as having "captured the mood of Brexit Britain" and likened to earlier British political satirists Hogarth and Gillray. (Wikipedia)
Cold War Steve is the pseudonym of Christopher Spencer who is a collage artist - and extremely good one. He even does it live with cameras filming him!
It's especially poignant that he dedicated himself to his collages as a way of keeping himself busy so as to deal with his mental health issues and the fallout from Brexit.
Seems to me he's becoming the Banksy for the Brexit Years - and like Banksy he has moved into 'selling product'.
READ MORE......>>
