Scandalize My Name Subject / Tattoo The cat hunches down

The cat hunches down

born from the dim minds of toiling peasants

Ivan Durrant: Barrier Draw charts the artist’s development from his earliest paintings and politically inspired performance art of the 1970s

For Caitlin Ruth

we meet four visitors

Scandalize My Name Subject / Tattoo The cat hunches down'Caroline, too, stared out at the restless traffic, her minds eye revolted by the memory of Ivan Sweets pale cold face and the explosive malice that had seethed behind his dead brown eyes' On the eve of Elaine Southeys 21st birthday, Ivan Sweet has been found dead in his flat in the basement of the Southeys historic north London home. A slick charmer to some of the tenants and a loathsome young scoundrel to others his death doesnt draw out many tears