for ivan

Myra, Marcus Harvey, 1995
Acrylic on canvas, 156"x126"

Basically, its a HUGE portrait of Myra Hindley (more specifically her arrest photo), who is famous for assisting Ian Brady in a series of child molestation/murders. Her image is composed of tiny black, white, and grey handprints (Harvey took a mould of a 4 year old's hand, and used the plaster prosthetic though,) which enraged plenty of people, before, after, and when it showed at Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1997.