
Harti
In this politically-pertinent piece, the artist looks to capture both
“dreams of union and dreams of independence”. Scotland is embodied by
the female pop-art character, as she glances tearfully over her
shoulder. Her audience comprises of significant male Scottish
personalities, including historical novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott,
industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, physician and explorer
David Livingstone, architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh,
mechanical engineer James Watt, actor and producer Sean Connery, poet
and lyricist Robert Burns, and an adapted image of Scottish portrait
painter Henry Raeburn’s The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch.