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2. FATAL FLOWER
GARDEN BY NELSTONE’S HAWAIIANS, 1930
REMIX: SIMON WOOLHAM, FATAL FLOWER GARDEN, 2007
The drawing represents the gypsy house in the ballad, with the dying
young boy inside it. The use of biro pen lends itself to representing
a fading life/memory and a rain trodden house. In the ballad a young
boy is enticed by jewels into the house of a gypsy lady. She takes
him by his lily-white hand and puts him in an upper room where no-one
can hear his calls and he dies there.
Simon Woolham’s work evolves around childhood memories, environments
and hidden places. He has previously exhibited at National Glass
Centre, Sunderland, The Lowry Salford and the Museum of Garden History,
London.
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