Plato's Atlantis

This painting celebrates the 10-year anniversary of fashion designer Alexander McQueen’s last

collection ‘Plato’s Atlantis,’ which fell at the dawn of a global lockdown in 2020. The

collection reflected on how humans and technology might evolve, garments were a hybrid of

human and animal forms, the footwear was the most bizarre, these skeletal shoes, evoking the

bone structure of deep-sea vertebrates. In 2020 this felt like a timely social comment, with

surveillance and a ban on leaving the house, the juxtaposition of a grotto in an estate near the

humans to evolve to survive.