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Epic Failure
Snapping to the Pause
Imaging the Filmic Gloriana
Into the Arctic
Skating on Thin Ice
Mapping the Assassin
Reguritate
There Ain't No Such Thing as a Sanity Clause
Merchandising Madness
Gouaches for Clocks
Bookish - Zines
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Janita Ryan
Current Projects
Aerogramme Project
Portfolio
Epic Failure
Snapping to the Pause
Imaging the Filmic Gloriana
Into the Arctic
Skating on Thin Ice
Mapping the Assassin
Reguritate
There Ain't No Such Thing as a Sanity Clause
Merchandising Madness
Gouaches for Clocks
Bookish - Zines
About
CV
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Epic Failure
Snapping to the Pause
Imaging the Filmic Gloriana
Into the Arctic
Skating on Thin Ice
Mapping the Assassin
Reguritate
There Ain't No Such Thing as a Sanity Clause
Merchandising Madness
Gouaches for Clocks
Bookish - Zines
About
CV
Sherilyn Finn as Cleopatra (Copy) View fullsize
Vanessa Redgrave as Mary Queen of scots (Copy) View fullsize
Helen Mirren as Elizabeth I (Copy) View fullsize
Hele Mirren (Copy) View fullsize
Quentin crisp (Copy) View fullsize
Cate Blanchet (Copy) View fullsize
  Helen Mirren as the Elizabeth II in “The Queen”  2006  Gouache on paper, 13cm x 8cm  Mirren won the Academy Award for the Best Actress  The Queen praised Mirren’s portrayal and invited Mirren over for dinner at Buckingham Palace but Mirren was unab View fullsize
  Olivia Colman as the Queen in “Hyde on Hudson”  2012  Gouache on paper, 13cm x 8cm  Historical epics produced by Hollywood inevitably say more about the era in which they’re produced than the eras they represent……..  Because Hyde Park projects the View fullsize
  Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady’  2011  Gouache on paper, 13cm x 8cm  “Poor Margaret Thatcher: her transformation into biopic drag queen is now complete………..Meryl Streep has done more for her than any spin-doctor.”   The Guardia View fullsize
  Meryl Streep as Lindy Chamberlain in “Evil Angels”  1988  Gouache on paper, 13cm x 8cm  Streep was nominated for an Academy Award.  “The words “the dingo took my baby!” made their way into popular culture, quoted and bastardised in American product View fullsize
  Cate Blanchet as Katherine Hepburn in “The Aviator”  2004  Gouache on paper, 13cm x 8cm  Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.   Wikipedia     As always, liberties have been taken. Some of the history is unreliable in chronology and View fullsize
  Quentin Crisp as Elizabeth I in “Orlando” 1992    Gouache on paper, 13cm x 8cm   Kenneth Turin of the Los Angeles Times described Orlando as "hollow… smug… and self-satisfied" View fullsize
  Helen Mirren as Elizabeth I in “Elizabeth I”    Gouache on paper, 13cm x 8cm   "Elizabeth I" is a portrait of a woman both ruthless and sentimental, formidable and mercurial, vain and likable. Female leaders today rarely are granted more than one d View fullsize
  Helen Mirren as Queen Charlotte in “The Madness of King George”  1994  Gouache on paper, 13cm x 8cm  Mirren scored a Best Supporting Actress nomination from the Academy – and a Best Actress award at Cannes….”  Rotten Tomatoes   Wikipedia  View fullsize
Meryl Streep (Copy) View fullsize
Katherine Hepburn (Copy) View fullsize
Cate Blanchet (Copy) View fullsize
Vanessa Redgrave (Copy) View fullsize
Sherilyn Finn (Copy) View fullsize
Elizabeth Taylor (Copy) View fullsize
Elizabeth Taylor (Copy) View fullsize
Mapping The Assassin Grid layout connecting characters to assassins (Copy) View fullsize
Venn diagram of Mapping the Assassin suspects (Copy) View fullsize
Installation shot (Copy) View fullsize
Sherilyn Finn as Cleopatra (Copy)
Vanessa Redgrave as Mary Queen of scots (Copy)
Helen Mirren as Elizabeth I (Copy)
Hele Mirren (Copy)
Quentin crisp (Copy)
Cate Blanchet (Copy)
  Helen Mirren as the Elizabeth II in “The Queen”  2006  Gouache on paper, 13cm x 8cm  Mirren won the Academy Award for the Best Actress  The Queen praised Mirren’s portrayal and invited Mirren over for dinner at Buckingham Palace but Mirren was unab
  Olivia Colman as the Queen in “Hyde on Hudson”  2012  Gouache on paper, 13cm x 8cm  Historical epics produced by Hollywood inevitably say more about the era in which they’re produced than the eras they represent……..  Because Hyde Park projects the
  Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady’  2011  Gouache on paper, 13cm x 8cm  “Poor Margaret Thatcher: her transformation into biopic drag queen is now complete………..Meryl Streep has done more for her than any spin-doctor.”   The Guardia
  Meryl Streep as Lindy Chamberlain in “Evil Angels”  1988  Gouache on paper, 13cm x 8cm  Streep was nominated for an Academy Award.  “The words “the dingo took my baby!” made their way into popular culture, quoted and bastardised in American product
  Cate Blanchet as Katherine Hepburn in “The Aviator”  2004  Gouache on paper, 13cm x 8cm  Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.   Wikipedia     As always, liberties have been taken. Some of the history is unreliable in chronology and
  Quentin Crisp as Elizabeth I in “Orlando” 1992    Gouache on paper, 13cm x 8cm   Kenneth Turin of the Los Angeles Times described Orlando as "hollow… smug… and self-satisfied"
  Helen Mirren as Elizabeth I in “Elizabeth I”    Gouache on paper, 13cm x 8cm   "Elizabeth I" is a portrait of a woman both ruthless and sentimental, formidable and mercurial, vain and likable. Female leaders today rarely are granted more than one d
  Helen Mirren as Queen Charlotte in “The Madness of King George”  1994  Gouache on paper, 13cm x 8cm  Mirren scored a Best Supporting Actress nomination from the Academy – and a Best Actress award at Cannes….”  Rotten Tomatoes   Wikipedia
Meryl Streep (Copy)
Katherine Hepburn (Copy)
Cate Blanchet (Copy)
Vanessa Redgrave (Copy)
Sherilyn Finn (Copy)
Elizabeth Taylor (Copy)
Elizabeth Taylor (Copy)
Mapping The Assassin Grid layout connecting characters to assassins (Copy)
Venn diagram of Mapping the Assassin suspects (Copy)
Installation shot (Copy)

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