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Kate Kelton: Sand Van Roy

$600

Kate Kelton
Sand Van Roy
Acrylic, ink, graphite on wood
10 x 12″

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Sand Van Roy is a Dutch-Belgian actress and comedienne who won a judgment for damages in a case against MailOnline for disclosing her identity and publishing false details about her case in an article about her complaint against the French filmmaker Luc Besson. Van Roy made headlines at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival for sporting a large, temporary Stop Violence Against Women tattoo (depicted in the painting) to protest 83-year-old French actor Alain Delon‘s Honorary Palme d’Or after he publicly admitted to slapping women.

Headdresses and crowns deify Kate Kelton’s subjects. She uplifts the Unsung Sheroes & Heroes, Patriarchy Smashers, Warrior Survivors, Silence Breakers, Philosophers, Truth-Tellers, Whistle Blowers and Thought Giants. She paints portraits cloaked in the garb of statues Ladislav Šaloun sculpted onto the train station that her great-grandfather, Josef Fanta, designed for Prague in 1901 – 1909.
Apotheosis through a reclaimed, reapplied Art Nouveau.