I hung out with this painting for a long time. It was worked on in three different studios as the world around it went into a spin. I started it in Berlin in 2019, later bringing it to a religious sculptors studio in Ireland. Then Covid chased us to a shed at the bottom of a tiny garden, where I finished it in May 2021. It's a painting about movement, pace, action, and contemplation. The title speaks volumes about the movement of mankind from the making of things to the disposing of those things that made us.
“The Age of Disposable Thumbs” will be on view at the RHA from 11-14 November before travelling to London to be exhibited at Sotheby’s New Bond Street, London 18-23 November.
For details about the piece, please contact:
Charlie Minter
Director, Specialist
Modern British and Irish Art
+44 20 7293 5925
