"The project was informative and good fun. By working with the artists I have learned how to expand my imagination. It was very enjoyable, and nice to meet new people."

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Jonathan Owen completes commission

for Barrhead Sports Centre 

January 2006

 

"The images in the main mural are fragments from the window-grille sculptures, selected for their resemblance to letters/characters in an unknown alphabet.  They are painted, arranged in a horizontal line, each held out by an anonymous hand, as though spelling out a proverb, motto or slogan.  What appears to be a piece of rhetoric, in a classical language, is illegible on closer inspection, the broken remnants of a useless security measure.

The smaller mural, also on a white background, depicts a laurel wreath cut out in the same manner as the grille sculpture and held aloft, again by an anonymous hand.  This image appeared on a number of occasions in the paintings I made with the members of the Unity Enterprise group."

 

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