Frustrated with the art scene locally, and international artworld through his ritual surveillance on Instagram, one frustrating day in the studio, Patrick Redmond took a break from painting, and sat down with a permanent marker and proceeded to scrawl 52 short quips on how he felt about being an artist within its institutional and administrative context. On seeing the verbal assault, James Merrigan asked the artist would he be interested in a screen-printed edition, supplemented by prints of Ronald McDonald the artist had been printing with soot on plaster with the same critical vengeance of the 52.

Patrick Redmond’s text-based works will be drawn, quartered and hung in a display that acts like a political demonstration. His “Ronald’s” will visually offset his rejection narratives, creating a critical-of-consumer-capitalism-setting for his dumb textual assaults on the artworld.