Lot 28

Work in very good condition with no faults to report. Work is ready to hang.


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Private collection, Melbourne

For Susan Norrie and many others born in the 1950s, the cult television show The Prisoner was a formative experience. The show mystified contemporary critics, but became a cult favourite with young people, Norrie included, for its surreal portrait of an arch individualist struggling to escape a domineering and oppressive society.
Norrie had a long-standing interest in model villages including Portmeirion, a model village in Wales and the main location for The Prisoner. Using a tourist photo of Portmeirion she transferred the image to a silk-screen just under 160cm square. The screen was placed over the top of a heavy background layer, often multi-coloured, and then painted in black
to frame the village. Norrie then painted into the image, highlighting some areas and disguising others.
The series was called "Be Seeing You" - the crippling farewell line used by the lead character's interrogators. Each painting was named after one of the episodes.