Collateral damage.

  • Boyer, Diana
Date:
2018
Reference:
3150092i
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Collateral damage. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Description

Comic strip style paintings of farm scenes depicting farmers and their livestock, mainly in greyscale, with highlights in yellow and orange. The images cover the origins of Bovine TB and the animals that can be carriers - dogs, cattle, sheep, foxes, deer. The final image is of badgers above a distraught farmer looking down on himself and his dog trudging uphill, over ground that is the final resting place of those whose lives ended as a result of the infection, with the words "there are no GOOD or BAD bad badgers... just endless misunderstandings. Over 33,000 cattle slaughtered last year. vet and farmer suicides". The artist discusses the content on Wellcome Collection Stories: https://wellcomecollection.org/articles/XbFhhBAAALWyyw5l

Publication/Creation

[Devon], 2018.

Physical description

4 paintings : watercolour, on card ; sheets 40 x 23 cm

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Lettering

Text in the images reads: COLLATERAL DAMAGE / BADGER CULLS... bla...bla...bla / ...to eradicate Bovine TB / ERADICATE?.. / since when? / why BOVINE? / dogs get it.. / cattle havent always had it / was it US that gave it to you ages ago? / aurochs / neanderthal / what about sheep? / In Spain several flocks have become infected / from wild boars / In Africa lions antelopes and kudus are the main carriers / foxes... / deer and even earthworms can have it / TB test results ....two reactors / ...and the hedghogs were given breakfast by kind Mr Badger / WHO had WHO for breakfast? and where ARE all the hedgehogs / urine contaminated silage / badger was always ready to lend a paw / ...more like a CLAW / There are no GOOD or BAD bad badgers.. / just endless misunderstandings / Over 33,000 cattle slaughtered last year / vet and farmer suicides

Notes

4 watercolours created for the comic strip pamphlet 'Collateral Damage' about the impact of Bovine tuberculosis on farming communities in Great Britain.
The pamphlet "seeks to defuse the entrenched 'for' and 'against' arguments re. badger culls which arise from the confused and narrow argument that badgers are either 'good' or 'bad' "-- artist.
Title provided by the artist.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 3150092i

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