On Deck postcard from the Hayward Gallery
My postcard
On On Deck
postcard series
105 x 150 mm
In 1966, British artist Malcolm Morley made a large painting based on a postcard depicting a group of people lounging on the deck of a boat. He titled his work On Deck.
On Deck was included in the Hayward Gallery’s exhibition, The Painting of Modern Life. The Hayward’s gift shop sold a postcard of Morley’s painting.
I bought a copy of this postcard and painted a monochromatic rendition of the image. I scanned this in and produced my own postcard. I sent this to a friend who will repeat the process and send the results back to me. I will collect her work, scan it, and send this to a new artist. Repeat ad infinitum.
The results will eventually be collected, and displayed in an appropriate format.
‘When I said my super-realist paintings were a "Dada" gesture, I was referring to the idea that basically painting from a reproduction was painting from a still life, because the image itself has three dimensions (including the edges). [...] I don’t think of the [photographic] source of a painting as second-hand [information.] For me it is first-hand. I am relating to the print of the image. I am not relating to where the image came from. The relationship I have to it has to be on a one-to-one basis. It is the image I am looking at.’ —Malcolm Morley
On Deck postcard from the Hayward Gallery
My postcard