James Cauty

Dead Dad 21

Cauty's work is well recognised and influential world wide especially his work and collaborations with BANKSY.  

UK based his commercial subvertisums and infamy largely lie with his subvertive stamp collection - Stamps of Mass contamination, stamps of   Mass destruction,

England Day Climate of Fear stamps, CO2 Global Warming stamp, Penny Blacks & Tupney Reds,   somewhere along the line the 7th and 8th class Stamps of Mass Production.  

2021

Screen print 0n D O A paper [Death of Art]

Signed in plate and numbered 7/20 in pencil from an edition of 20 by DOA FINAL SOLUTION PRINT

Print Size - 31 x 38 cm (12 x 15 in)

Authenticity D O A stamp  and authorised by the CNPB

Other historical particulars included in the sale    

A contemporary up to date Cauty print based from the now obsolete black and white ÔDead Dad 1Õ (Dead Dad 1 was mainly intended for Fly Posting so unsigned. Dead dad 1 was an Open edition print run from 2007 by [Operation Magic Kingdom]  

Dead Dad 21 is a limited edition run, in Landscape, this one 7 of a limited edition of 20.  

The addition of colour centralises the Mickey Mouse and Dead Dad Subject again Typical Anti conformist with CautyÕs popular subversive Mickey Mouse.

This Print is Endorsed by DOA (Death of Art).

Incredible Clean Crisp detail.        

Over a diverse and productive career Cauty has distinguished himself as a musician, record producer, artist and cultural provocateur through fusions of high art, low art and popularist mediums to spectacular effect. As a teenager Cauty drew the intricate multi-million selling Lord of the Rings poster for British retailer Athena.  

With Alex Patterson as The Orb and with Bill Drummond as The KLF and the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, Cauty co-wrote and produced a string of global top ten hits.  

As The K-Foundation, Cauty and Drummond staged a series of seminal actions including the 1994 K Foundation Art Award for Worst Artist of the Year and the K Foundation Burn A Million Quid.  

From experimental sonic weapons (the Advanced Acoustic Armaments), to anti-Iraq war postage stamps (Stamps of Mass Destruction), and model making (Riot In A Jam Jar and the Aftermath Dislocation Principle) CautyÕs work combines dissent, cultural subversion and gleeful level of high humour. His roguish and voluble approach has earned him a cult following for work that remains radical, responsive and darkly comical.  

He produces work that draws on and responds to contemporary culture, sampling it and selling it back as recoded realities. In 2013 Cauty completed The Aftermath Dislocation Principle (ADP), a vast 1:87 scale-model landscape (equivalent to 1 sq. mile in miniature) which has been completely looted, destroyed, burnt and is devoid of life apart from 3000 or so model police that attend this apocalyptic aftermath. In 2015 the ADP was installed in BanksyÕs Dismaland in Weston Super Mare.