People Do All The Difficult Jobs

Category

Museums & Galleries Item

Item no

20724

Title

People Do All The Difficult Jobs

Description

A two part screenprint. The comic strip like narrative shows detailed drawings on aspects of daily life. The first screen shows a group of men in suits. Behind the men is a yellow lorry and a woman in a red dress. The other screen is divided horizontally into three sections.
Each section has a scene of daily interactions. The gestures between the robots highlight certain anxieties involved in human relationships. Some of the scenes seem to show the robot creatures arguing, mourning, playing and generally navagating the trials and tribulations of family life.

Artist / maker

McCail, Chad

Size

76 x 156

Type

Screenprint

Location

City Art Centre

Accession number

CAC2000/4

This work is one of a two part screenprint that featured as part of a series of nine drawings, for an exhibition in London in September 2000.
The cartoon mechanical drawings create a narrative into aspects of daily life. When looking at these images it is hard to know how to receive the message that is being presented. McCail's style also owes much of his influence to his grandfather, William McCail, who had been a cartoonist for the D.C Thompson newspaper empire in Dundee in the 1930's. Chad McCail uses comic book imagery to transmit a political message in an efficient and poignant way.

Purchased in 2000, with Jean F. Watson Bequest funds and assistance from the National Fund for Aquisitions, administred with Goverment funds by the National Musuems of Scotland and the Scottish Arts Council Assisted Purchases Scheme.

By Permission of Chad McCail.

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