Weight: 270g (comparable to a small cod, or a tin of beans)
Dimensions: 240mm × 240mm × 880mm (9.4″ × 9.4″ × 34.6″)
Materials: Acrylic paint on skip found sweet tin
Technique: Painted using a brush (a refreshingly conventional approach within this oeuvre)
Fire Resistance: The tin substrate would survive conflagration, though the acrylic would likely burn away, leaving only the pure metallic essence
Weight Enhancement Option: Can be filled with leaden balls to achieve a more substantial 10kg weight for those who prefer their art to possess genuine gravitational presence.
Durability: The metallic substrate ensures longevity, making this piece likely to outlast many other traditionally crafted artworks.
Investment Analysis: The metallic substrate ensures the artwork will not only retain its purchase value, but could increase in value over time. BUY!.
This sweet artwork employs the same sophisticated beige and brown palette as the Salvador Dalí portrait, suggesting either consistent artistic vision or a limited understanding of colour theory. The choice of painting surface—a discarded sweet tin retrieved from a skip—adds archaeological significance to what might otherwise be merely a terribleist painting.
The title’s three elements (onion, toilet roll, mallet) present themselves as a cryptic trinity of domestic significance, each object heavy with symbolic weight that the painting may or may not successfully convey, depending on your point of view.
