The Next Big Thing

'The Next Big Thing' forms part of what has become a series of paintings of landmarks no longer there. The pile of rubble is all that remains of a pub called 'The Hawthorn Tree'. The pub itself appears in a painting of mine from 1999 called 'The Hawthorn Tree', and also as a ruin in a painting called 'The Age of Bullshit' in 2010. The pub sat in the Tile Hill Estate, and I went there frequently with my dad. Neither the pub nor my dad are there anymore. The land is now a housing estate of it's own.'

Text courtesy of the artist