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Monday, 7 July 2025

BADCOCK GOES APE

This is what I did to one of John Badcock's paintings. John Badcock is a NZ painter whose paintings pull in surprisingly high prices. Here is one of a naked man beating a woman with a stick.

I took a photo of one of his paintings in a gallery and carefully added some Toyota HiAce van reflection to give my photo of his painting some added social context.

And then I let rip with a few filters which seemed to bring out the beating aspect a little more. There is nothing like a good beating!

The things you see in the street…

Are we being traumatised by these images? Well I guess that depends how sensitive we are.

I didn’t make any of this up – really I didn’t – Here is a photo of John Badcock: