Popsie's Scrap Metal Yard
Tate, Age 16
The subject of the work was inspired by my grandad, who I call Popsie, who is a scrap metal man. The car bonnet belonged to my older sister’s car which she wrote off in a car crash. Inspired by Cornelia Parker, I flattened the bonnet by driving a mini digger over it in the scrap yard. The history of the car bonnet and the portrait of Popsie in the scrap yard makes the piece very personal to me.
Currently on free display at the RA