By Elleanna Chapman
Unique
Lenin (Working Class Hero) celebrates the much-maligned Russian revolutionary, rendered in thousands of diamantés – equal parts glittering and tacky. Informed by the artist’s upbringing as a working-class Essex girl, the work challenges conventional notions of heroism, questioning whose histories, identities and tastes are celebrated or dismissed within class society.
By Elleanna Chapman
Unique
Lenin (Working Class Hero) celebrates the much-maligned Russian revolutionary, rendered in thousands of diamantés – equal parts glittering and tacky. Informed by the artist’s upbringing as a working-class Essex girl, the work challenges conventional notions of heroism, questioning whose histories, identities and tastes are celebrated or dismissed within class society.
