Rachel Reeves has introduced artworks commemorating lockdown and social distancing in No 11 to replace portraits of her male predecessors and British monarchs as part of her clampdown on male art. The Telegraph has the story.
The Chancellor has removed portraits depicting her famed male predecessors David Lloyd George and Benjamin Disraeli, who both led the Treasury before leading the country.
Portraits of British monarchs have also disappeared from No 11’s walls since Labour won the election.
Instead, the hallways are graced with abstract depictions of ‘social distancing’ and Covid anxiety.
The changes follow a commitment from the Chancellor to remove artworks featuring male sitters and those created by male artists.
It also comes as part of an artistic purge in Downing Street which has seen Sir Keir Starmer rid No 10 of portraits depicting Elizabeth I, Sir Walter Raleigh, Margaret Thatcher and William Shakespeare.
All works are part of the Government Art Collection, typically used to project British soft power during official visits.
Incoming ministers are entitled to use the collection to decorate their offices.
From the collection of 15,000 works, Ms Reeves has selected a piece titled ‘Covid Anxiety 5 (Mask Disorder)’ for display.
The work by Donna Coleman features an abstract human head formed by a red squiggle, and appears alongside another work titled ‘Misunderstood’, featuring a charcoal swirl fronted by a black square.
The artist has said that the paintings explore “how social media affects people’s wellbeing”.
Also chosen for No 11 are the pieces ‘Portrait of a Woman (Invisible Virus) numbers 46 and 47’, part of a ‘Quarantine Collage’ by artist Lisa Fielding-Smith. The images, which are among the replacements for the more traditional portraiture, are formed of cut-outs from women’s magazines.
A portrait of Lloyd George by Sir William Orpen, a high society painter, was taken down following Labour’s election win. The Liberal statesman served as chancellor from 1908 to 1915, and Prime Minister from 1916 to 1922.
A marble bust of Disraeli by Charles Bell Birch was also removed. The Jewish Conservative peer also served as Chancellor several times, and headed British imperial policy as Prime Minister twice, first in 1868 and then from 1874 to 1880.
She does seem to be a little bit barmy. And sexist, obviously.
Worth reading in full.
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My toddler’s scribbles go on the fridge.
Probably better at economics as well.
The reality of course is that the infantile squiggles by Donna Coleman have been chosen by Thieves simply because they are a perfect representation of the inside of her head.
Or the Ginger Growler’s . . . ahem
Cheers for that mental image…
Yeah, sorry for that TR.
All secure portals and gates unlocked by enemy within and barbarians blundering and plundering at the heart of government.
The only art relevant to the respiratory virus with an age-fatality profile that paralleled general mortality is the art of deceit, fakery and bare-faced lies.
The only comfort I can find in this is to observe that she is clearly nostalgic for “covid times” and that ultimately although the covid scam achieved a great deal, it did in the end fail because it was simply not sustainable. That failure probably rankles with her and her ilk.
It makes perfect sense for Reeves to surround herself with images of failure and despair, as she probably identifies better with those, while getting rid of images of great and successful people, who reflect everything she isn’t.
She will be remembered – assuming anyone can be bothered – at the first and worst.
The Covid psy-op represents the coming despotism of the Anti-white Party’s total-control state. So of course Thieves celebrates it.
She is overcompensating for her inferiority complex.
Nothing complex about it. She IS inferior.
Reeves obviously seeks to express that she’s not British but COVID and that British history ought to be buried and forgotten in favour of the much superior COVID history which was socially constructed in The Right Way™ by The Right People™ from the start.
Whut? No Trans artists?
A transartist would be someone who claims to have been born as an artist despite this is evidently not the case. Which means pretty much all of so-called modern art was obviously created by such people.
Ah. Identifies as an artist but clearly isn’t. Yes.
But, but, anyone that self identifies as an artist must be believed.
The government has an art collection? WTF?
No the Government have f all we the taxpayers have an art collection. It’s just that only these w…kers can use them to decorate their office walls.
Good point. Most of them are probably in storage. We should sell them, or maybe deploy all the good ones in public buildings around the country and sell the modern crap that nobody likes.
Some dismiss her as Rachel from Accounts, but it seems she is just as nasty as her boss.
Chances are the she is the boss and Keir Charmless just a figurehead who got selected because some people think he’s marginally less nasty, the idea being that Starmer is the carrot dangling in front of our eyes and Reeves the stick we get beaten up with while wondering what it’s for.
Her name is hitting home as it is being criticised as ‘misogynistic’ by her few friends.
Just another victory lap celebrating the breakdown of democracy during the Lockdown Con.
Goodness help us if she starts paying attention to the economy.
Good to see where her priorities really lie.
Perhaps we can look back on it as a blessed time. How we banged our pots and pans in unison for the NHS. Dutifully queued outside of shops. Cried tears of joy when the vaccine arrived. We did what we could to avoid killing granny. Although we didn’t appreciate just how well granny was being taken care of with high doses of Midazolam and morphine. Best sleep she’s has in donkey’s years. So good that she never woke up.
A terrible episode
If Reeves was able to select Donna Coleman’s infantile scribblings, it means that thanks to some moronic Civil Servants who enjoy wasting taxpayers’ money, they were already in the collection.
I suggest the next Government flog the lot off.
As long as reeves paid for her lousy choice of artwork, who cares what she hangs on the walks of her office. If the taxpayer was forced to foot the bill, you have been robbed.
The government have everything running so smoothly and Reeves taking credit for a fraction of a percent rise in GDP. They have plenty of spare time to do important things such as redecorate No 10 & 11
As the news just keeps getting better in the USA, it gets worse in the Uk. RFK confirmed
