Away With The Circus is a large series of limited edition linocut prints, including some single monotype prints, all based on The Circus. 

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In Brighton there is a group of circus performers who dress up for the purpose of being drawn called The Drawing Circus, and they have been an endless resource for me.

The circus as a theme is inspiring as our oddities and eccentricities become talents to capitalise on, and in doing so, it almost seems to be a practice of protest against the society that has marginalised those oddities in the first place. But of course, you do end up being still in society, and it is still a job, so most of my characters will be sad or bored. There is something haunting to me about a performer in their time off, after the show, after they have given so much.

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Read more about this series on the Artist blog.

limited edition prints inspired by the circus