Ralph Steadman: Leaders Series - Revolutionary

Ralph Steadman: Leaders Series - Revolutionary1 of 8 prints that makes up the Leaders series."I thought I wanted to do a series of things on Leaders. People like Kings & Queens, Presidents, Judges, Assassins anything that somebody would call a leader of something. Some cause or other or even simply an institution, like a judge. It occurred to me that they were in fact compelled to be those leaders through fate alone, so they became victims of fate. It was almost their destiny to be such." Ralph

Journeying north he stumbled upon Aberdeen

Edition Size: 12

To engage with John Byrne’s art is to engage with John himself

The plate and the HC were produced in 1993 and the full edition was published later in 1995

Medium: Linocut

printmaker and watercolourist

Richard Demarco (born in Edinburgh

This layering of meaning is mirrored by the physical layering of the printed separations

imbuing the prints with a truly universal quality

‘All Cats are Grey at Night’ is proverbial and complete in the meaning – in the dark we are all the same

He is a former director of Peacock and a former President of Aberdeen Artists Society

Part of the ‘East - Meridian - West’ triptych