Mans Reach 2011 · Soothsayer 2000

Mans Reach, 2011: Leonardo's Vitruvian Man torn down the middle. One half is a judge in a gas mask in front of a dead tree, factories, a tank, burning towers and a heap of skeletons; the other half stands under a rainbow by an olive tree with a dove.

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The judge in the gas mask

2011In the piece

Leonardo's Vitruvian Man is torn in half. On the dark side he wears a barrister's wig and a gas mask.

Jul 2025In the news

The International Court of Justice ruled unanimously that states have legal duties to protect the climate. It said continuing fossil fuel production, licences or subsidies could amount to an internationally wrongful act. The opinion is advisory, not binding.

Read the article on Just Security ↗Just Security, Jul 2025

From the 2011 listing: "As humans we think we own the earth. For far too long we have taken far too much. This planet will only stay silent to this abuse for so long. Nature will always take its course, with or without us!"

final 32x24 print file dated 13 August 2011 · original artist statement held on record · sources linked on each card.

Prints

Giclée · Hahnemühle 310gsm · numbered · edge to edge

Drawn to scale beside a 175 cm (5′9″) person, hung with the centre at 150 cm.

Small12 × 16" (30 × 41 cm)Edition of 50
Medium18 × 24" (46 × 61 cm)Edition of 25
Large30 × 40" (76 × 102 cm)Edition of 10

Delivery included to the UK, Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand. Printed to order and posted in a tube.

Prints from £50