CAROLINE SHOTTON
Have I Got Moos
For You
Boxed canvas
Edition of 195
Image 21¼" x 34"
£425
the 'moovin' collection also sees light hearted take on the humorous antics
Shotton use her cows as a cipher for of children in ‘Dairy milk’, which depicts
many of her messages about life, love and a cow bursting through a chocolate bar
the darker, tougher times of the modern wrapper, face covered in chocolate,
world. “I didn’t plan their development in through to a topical and poignant look
any linear way – the cows were originally at the credit crunch in ‘Cash Cow’ with a
a kind of comfort blanket for my son when devious cow’s head appearing on a giant,
I fi rst drew one on his nursery wall. For crumpled American dollar bill. Shotton says
him there was a sense that the cow was the inspiration came from a Lucky Dollar
there watching over him even when I had she has kept for years, and her own evalu-
left the room,” she explains. now they ation of what money and success means.
have developed into not “money’s a strange thing, it can
just bovine faces with tear you apart when you
intriguing and enig- have it, it can tear you
matic expressions, apart when you don’t. this
but as a way to convey image is intended to make
phrases as a great source of inspiration. the Diamonds Are For a range of emotions and people smile and be positive
beautiful and melancholy ‘Beef Dripping’
Heifers
Hand embellished
viewpoints about the human about money – my motto is
is quintessential Shotton: “I had this ‘Beef Sculpture condition. “I have always look after it and it will look after
Dripping’ title in my head for ages which
Edition of 150
Height 9½"
created work that stems you but I don’t believe money
I remembered from my childhood and
£399
from personal experience yet can buy happiness.”
as I watched cows munching grass in the allows others to add their own the media is another
pouring rain I realised I had fi nally found narrative,” she says. area Shotton has chosen
the picture for my title and then I started to ‘moovin’ is a delightfully to point her artistic fi nger
paint,” she explains. diverse collection, from a at. In ‘Have I Got moos
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