Oil on canvas
Myriam Watching Herself Watching Herself on the Bed.
Man Eating His Heart and Entrails.
See also: Still-born Child in Kitchen (diptych). 1977/1982
Lenkiewicz generally created a centrepiece image for each Project, one which dominated the exhibition either in sheer scale or visual drama. This painting was originally a single large canvas called Man Eating his Heart and Entrails. Sitter for the painting Annie Hill-Smith explains that:
‘Christmas Dinner at the Bus Station’: Cockney Jim and associates.
Local Children: Fight by the Mayflower Steps.
Frederick Hutchings, ‘Oldest practicing fisherman on The Barbican'.
Snowy by the gallant block hanging on the gantry of ‘The Aline’.
Plymouth Mourning Over its Unfortunates.
Lenkiewicz would have witnessed similar scenes in many of the ‘dosses’ or disused warehouses he commandeered to house vagrants in the late 60s and early 70s, who called them ‘The Cowboys’ Holiday Inns’. The town crier or ‘bellman’, seen in traditional garb, was also a city’s official ale taster, who would certify the brew as fit for consumption. Throughout his life Lenkiewicz criticised the attitudes of breweries and city officials who licensed innumerable premises in Plymouth’s historic Barbican area.
Self-Portrait aged 32.
The Painter with Courbet’s Self-Portrait.
One of a trio of similar studies which also featured Rembrandt and Van Gogh.
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