THE LAST OF ENGLAND

You said you would say your goodbyes, and feel the worlds wash over you. Take your losses far away and call it the end. Repair you with the words and beauties and you will come back bigger my girl boy.

Ford Maddox Brown

Oil on Panel

This is a painting about emigration, the couple are departing for Australia. The subject itself - departure in desperate circumstances for a foreign land - has parallels with the biblical story of the Flight into Egypt. The artist himself posed for the painting, along with his partner Emma, and their children Cathy, the fair-haired girl in the background, and Oliver, the baby.

_Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource | Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery

Tilda Swinton, The Last Of England, Derek Jarman.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7VqAK3WI3Y#

Ethereal vocals throughout this hypnotic sequence by Diamonda Galas.

The artist's personal commentary on the decline of his country in a language closer to poetry than prose. A dark meditation on London under Thatcher

_International Film Circuit