Free Parking
Jack Cheetham
Free Parking
Jack Cheetham
Reference
SAS0067_002
Year
2018
Dimensions (cm)
Height: 161
Length: 437
Depth: 182
Length: 437
Depth: 182
Materials
figure: Silicone, pigment, oil paint, wood, fibreglass, duct tape, wadding, polyurethane foam, aluminium wire, steel rod, human hair, artificial hair, clothing, boots, vehicle: Ford Focus 2007 1.6 ZETEC with evolving car litter/paraphernalia
Current Location
Glasgow (Various).
Suitable Locations for the Work
- Indoors
- Outdoors
- Floor-based
- Freestanding
About the Artwork
The work is rooted in contemplations around consumer cultures, labours and legacies, through processes of recycling, ornamenting and editing. It also incorporates expanded forms of caricature, primarily based on myself, as a potential mode of personifying, exhausting and evaporating the effects that these objects and materials can have on people over time. I often explore this subtly and discretely, but with moments of rambunctiousness, to comment on personal themes of environment, masculinity, celebrity, labour, tradition, storytelling, education, humour and fantasy in this highly consumerist time.
Background, history, commissioner of the work
'Free Parking' was originally part the project 'Good £uck' curated by artist duo Beagles & Ramsay for Glasgow International 2018.
'Free Parking'
figure: Silicone, pigment, oil paint, wood, fibreglass, duct tape, wadding, polyurethane foam, aluminium wire, steel rod, human hair, artificial hair, clothing, boots,
vehicle: Ford Focus 2007 1.6 ZETEC with evolving car litter/paraphernalia
(originally located in Bill’s Tool Store customer car park for the duration of Glasgow International festival).
Thematic/contextual information
This sculpture 'Free Parking' (originally titled 'Customer Parking') (2018) was first presented in the customer car park of Bill’s Tools Store in The Barras of Glasgow’s east end. It depicted a figure resembling actor John Goodman snoozing inside a used Ford Focus. The scene existed during the tool shop’s opening times for the three weeks of the Glasgow International festival.
