Prison Gallery Visitor Gifts

Exhibition for Prisoners

Nothing like traveling hundreds of miles to immerse yourself in art for the sole purpose of killing time between meals.

'Number two. That's the art that offended me.'

'Wow, talk about genius!'

Art Gallery.

"By 'genius' do they mean the artist or the marketing department?"

'It was restored just last year, and changed from an abstract painting to a landscape.'

'How can they call it modern art when it's 100 year's old?'

"I'm not an Antony Gormley, I am Antony Gormley."

Private Viewing

"That must be the artist over there."

"This piece resembles my subconscious desire to draw spirals on a big piece of paper."

Woodworms at a sculpture gallery.

Prisoner still life painting.

The less one gets it, the more it's art.

"It's a great work!"

'No, no....You have it all wrong!'

"I like it, Julian — it speaks to what a waste of time and money your MFA was."

'You're no Pollock.'

"Your painting is both original and good. Sadly, the good bits are not original and the original bits are not good."

Francoise Gilot

Understanding art.

"While, yes, I could produce those strokes, I lack the context to position an image in the ongoing conversation of contemporary art as enclosed by capitalist forces."

Jackson Pollock - "Oh no! Someone's thrown paint all over it!"

'Of course this makes your old masters al look now so very contrived.'

'I didn't choose art. Art chose me!'

"But is it art?"

Tracey Emin's Bed

Joseph Furphy and Miles Franklin.

How Art Works.

'The artist did this one during his 'I've got no idea' - period.'

"In this series, the artist is in dialogue with her printer."

Rodin's Irish Judge

"My kid could have done that with AI."

"Is this 'pollocks'."