I wonder who will bring roses to my grave?
Mickey Mason

3–20 december

In his exhibition I wonder who will bring roses to my grave? Mickey showcases a new body of work that marks a significant development in his ongoing exploration of the imagined American West and its surrounding mythos. This new collection represents a five-year culmination of inquiry into the nuances of colour, composition, and symbolism of the idealised legend of the cowboy, only to be dismantled and rebuilt, put to pasture and reanimated.

Existing outside of the constraints of historical and geographical reality, the landscapes of this collection–both literal and emotional–move between the conventions of fantasy, nostalgia, and mythology. 

Deeply influenced by the storytelling traditions of 1960s and 70s country music and cinema, interwoven with religious iconography and with a touch of camp levity, I wonder who will bring roses to my grave? is intended to be viewed through an almost mystic lens. The works evoke themes of solitude, longing, faith and mortality, gently questioning the rigid cowboy archetype. To this end, the heart of the exhibition is an articulation of the tension between the cowboy's traditional image of stoic fortitude and a more intimate sense of vulnerability, a human presented against threats both otherworldly and within one’s self. 

I wonder who will bring roses to my grave? is presented by BSG Projects.