Bad Painting - selected works

Bad Painting is an ongoing series using image and language to register contemporary violence and public speech as lived experience.

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Selected works

Bad Painting 53: Man selling three refugees. They will be forced to work on a farm somewhere in the north. The youngest of the three will be raped & beaten to death. He is seven years of age.

22.7cm x 30.5cm, acrylic on canvas, May 2017

Bad Painting 56: A prisoner in CIA custody being waterboarded.

22.7cm x 30.5cm, acrylic on canvas, May 201

Bad Painting 60: Christians enjoying a hot & sunny day in Margate. Men are topless & women cover their bodies with dresses, T-shirts or swimming suits/bikinis.

22.7cm x 30.5cm, acrylic on canvas, July 2017

Bad Painting 164: An angry father is yelling at his daughter and telling her that she is stupid and will never achieve anything in life.

22.7cm x 30.5cm, acrylic on canvas, June 2020

Bad Painting 231: A teenager was ordered by his dad to severely punish his seven-year-old cousin because he couldn't recite 13 bible verses. He buried him alive without boots or a coat in about 80 pounds of snow. He will freeze to death.

22.7cm x 30.5cm, acrylic on canvas, September 2021

Bad Painting 234: After boyfriend found girlfriend’s advice card for domestic abuse victims from hospital, he punched her repeatedly in the face and forced her face into dog excrement. He is holding her up to a mirror and saying: 'Look at you. What a state you're in.'

22.7cm x 30.5cm, acrylic on canvas, September 2021

Bad Painting 260: Husband is interrogating wife. He wants to know why she is 10 minutes late and why she is wearing makeup.

22.7cm x 30.5cm, acrylic on canvas, December 2021

Bad Painting 358: Young women's rights activist in Saudia Arabia being secretly sentenced to 11 years in prison by an anti-terrorism court.

22.7cm x 30.5cm, oil on canvas, May 2024

Bad Painting 372: Meeting discussing a secret plan centred on remigration.

22.7cm x 30.5cm, oil on canvas, May 2024

Bad Painting 389: IDF solderis urinating on and kicking the body of an alleged Palestinian fighter.

22.7cm x 30.5cm, oil on canvas, July 2024

Bad Painting 401: A man and a woman are talking during a theatre show.

22.7cm x 30.5cm, oil on canvas, November 2024

Bad Painting 418: Dad whispering to his daughter at night that no one must ever know about this.

22.7cm x 30.5cm, oil on canvas, May 2025

Related project:
Der andere Tod hinter dem Mord — an extended investigation developed alongside Bad Painting.