Animal Anarchy (Modern Girls, Modern Boys series), 2023

The ‘Modern Girls, Modern Boys’ series takes inspiration from happenstance collage such as the accumulation of street bill-posting and alleyway graffiti. Zam’s portrait work often features celebrated cultural figures; more recently whole images are constructed from thousands of tiny individual digital pieces. The subject, overlaid with clusters of sometimes hundreds of millefiori-like fragments from popular culture remains discernible; the random detritus creates a mysterious and slightly disturbing effect. This piece was inspired in part by genius fashion designer Vivienne Westwood (1941-2022), considered one of the historically most influential figures of that industry. It also celebrat...View all