Urban Totem Barrier Bag – 5/10

Urban Totem Barrier Bag
5/10
43 x 43 x 25cm (17 x 17 x 10in)
Painted canvas, 3-pocket tan poplin lining, cream cotton webbing handles, slate blue woven cotton shoulder strap with nickel plated fixtures, magnetic clasp.
2023

*Please note: The bags are not printed! Each one is a uniquely fabricated from real studio paintings by the artist.

‘This truly unique edition of highly crafted shoulder bags are cut from the fine canvas cloth of a genuine Shane Bradford painting. Where Bradford’s T.R.O.P.E. project sees large-scale painted canvasses penetrated and performed on by dancers from within, the Barrier Bag further carries the idea into the ‘real world’. The ergonomic interactions we have with our bags, the reaching-in, the weighing-down, the bodily strapping the grabbed handles amount to an extension of our natural selves. A good bag blends with its wearer, it serves its intimate and practical function whilst advertising its master’s superior taste and savoir faire. A bag is a buddy, a mule, and on occasion is the only thing that stands between you and other human beings in close proximity. Yes, it’s a protective barrier, but one to be breached, one to be shown off, and one to collect.’