Faculty of Art

Drawing and Painting

Jim Russell

Hall of Mirrors

This large scale piece is based on a screen grab from television coverage of Mark Zuckerberg's interrogation by US Congress regarding Facebook's role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal and its direct impact on the election of Donald Trump. It is intended to place the viewer in the line of media fire.

“The Climate of Untruth series was commenced in late February this year, and is the artist's response to the fear of the Covid-19 pandemic and our increasingly skeptical relationship with social media, politics and power.”