A thought-provoking art exhibition touring the UK is coming to Bristol this week - and it might make you think twice about shopping on Amazon. From Wednesday, Bristol’s Centrespace gallery is to show a brand new, accessible and relatable artwork all about the ‘Stinking Rich’, including billionaire Jeff Bezos, owner of Amazon.
Starting in Plymouth and then heading to Penzance, Cornwall, Stinking Rich: The Cost of Wealth is now touring the country. Bristol's up next, before the show heads to London and then Macclesfield. The poignant work reflects the artist’s research into the extreme wealth of several individuals globally. Artist, Andrew Swan, said: “My art practice has been the observation of how we value others through class, wealth and privilege.”
Andrew volunteers at The Streetfood Penzance Project in Cornwall, a charity providing hot meals to the homeless and vulnerable. He continued: “A large influence has been based on my experiences volunteering for the Streetfood Penzance Project. From the extreme poverty in local communities to the extreme wealth of individuals in the UK and globally, I wanted to pursue the strand of my art practice of basing my art on truth and to challenge the accepted norms that are occurring in our society, such as, that it was acceptable to have extreme wealth whilst extreme poverty in the world is prevalent and increasing.”
