Joys
acrylic, watercolour, gouache, MDF.
( 2.4 x 1.7m approx. )

This false doorway recreates the ionic frontage of Joy’s antique shop in Edinburgh. A neo-classical addition to a squat doorway on a medieval thoroughfare, like much of the Old Town at the time it experienced the eighteenth century equivalent of ‘keeping up with the Joneses’. It has here been given a deco-makeover thus “reveal[ing] that pastiche is central to the desire to animate the past” . *
Young Athenians, The Royal Scottish Academy, The Mound, Edinburgh.
*Neil Mulholland and Deborah Jackson, Get Around Town Getts Around Town, Young Athenians, Royal Scottish Academy, p.9