Contemporary street artist Shuby cites dancer Josephine Baker, the films of Busby Berkeley & Andy Warhol’s Pop prints amongst her greatest influences. The result is a unique & eye-catching aesthetic that revels in technicolour, kitsch absurdism, & bold, graphic compositions, to astonishing success. ‘ Cattle Ranch’ reappropriates an antique print with hand painted
Details: a greyscale illustration depicts a nineteenth century cowboy, as he herds buffalo across the plains of the mid-west. Shuby has painted her signature cheeky, oversized bunny head onto the rancher’s face, with a pink, grinning mouth of buck-teeth, floppy ears, & silly stare. The tension between the kitsch & colourful juvenility of the rabbit head, with the naturalistic illustration is inspired: a brilliant merging of old & new in a compelling, contemporary print.