Prison Gallery Visitor Prints

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.'

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

"That must be the artist over there."

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

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

Private Viewing

Woodworms at a sculpture gallery.

Prisoner still life painting.

'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."

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

"It's a great work!"

Francoise Gilot

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

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

Understanding art.

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

"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."

Joseph Furphy and Miles Franklin.

"But is it art?"

"My kid could have done that with AI."

"Is this 'pollocks'."

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

Tracey Emin's Bed

Rodin's Irish Judge

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

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

How Art Works.