the dawn treader
2018, 7’4” H x 6’ W
Digital animated projection, acrylic panels
Digital animated projection, acrylic panels
Photo credit: Mark Pickthall, 2018
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Villa Montalvo’s historic stained glass window, depicting Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo’s galleon the San Salvador, was the vision that sparked Munro to propose an entire exhibition responding to the Narnia series. His childhood copy of Voyage of the Dawn Treader—which was the first book of the Narnia series the artist ever read—had a similar galleon on its cover. He wanted to share the immediate literary connection he had felt with Montalvo. So he took some artistic license and transformed the historic window with a psychedelic projection that animates the galleon for visitors to witness. Equally, it is a nod to pop art and a tribute to Sir Peter Blake, one of Britain oldest living artists, famous for creating the cover for the Beatles’ St. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album.
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