Obiter has spent more than a fair share of life stood before a rack of postcards outside a gift shop just paralysed with indecision: which one to buy? The answer, of course, is to go for the postcard that’s a montage of different views, ideally with ‘Greetings from…’ written somewhere. Gives more of a feel of place, perhaps.
This is the eminently sensible approach taken by Hanna Fine Art in its commission of a print to mark the appointment of Dame Sue Carr as England and Wales’ first lady chief justice. Her appointment is a true legal landmark, and British artist Conor Rafferty has used that link to produce a limited edition run of 500 prints depicting much loved ‘legal landmarks’ (pictured). These are Gray’s Inn, Inner Temple, the Law Society, Lincoln’s Inn, Middle Temple and the Royal Courts of Justice. The title is ‘purposefully ambiguous’.
Of course, some montage images can look a little plonked together - a challenge Rafferty meets by altering perspectives such that all the buildings except the Law Society’s Hall in the middle lean away from the centre. Each image overlaps another.
All 500 prints are signed by the new LCJ, and are for sale at £395 each, the proceeds going to a variety of charities.
If any readers miss out on one, they might hold out for a portrait of Dame Sue Carr, if she can be persuaded to sit. Along with buildings, ‘women in ink’ is another theme in Rafferty’s work.
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