Tamsin Relly – Car, 2011

This stamp-sized etching, depicting a small car in flames, was made during and in response to the London riots in 2011. In contrast to a narrative of stability and progress projected in the colonial west, Car hints at a vulnerability to civil unrest – a volatility that seems ever more exposed in an increasingly polarised political climate. Referencing found media imagery, and printed in monochrome to the edges of the hand torn paper, the work holds the feel of a newspaper clipping.