SWD 30

Brent Martin, learning-disabled hate attack victim

Brent Martin, a 30-year old learning-disabled man slain in a hate crime attack, Sunderland, England, 2007

Art: 2018
Ink, pencil, colored pencil, gouache on acid-free illustration board
Framed: 18.5 inches H x 22.5 W [46.9 cm. H x 57 W]

Brent Martin, from Sunderland, was 30 years of age when he was stamped (stomped in American English), beaten and kicked to death. He was learning disabled and had spent previously spent nearly ten years in hospitals.

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In the drawing, I also added a drawing fragment I had drawn for another human rights art series drawing but which I didn't use. Seen at lower left, the writing states: Way out (with an arrow). While Americans think of the wordage of Way Out as colloquial-slang, as in “far out” (with nothing to do with directions) in British English it's directional - info – signage lingo at train stations, and in London tube stations.

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The monster images were drawn for copying onto the wood base of a mosaic -drawing combo of the Under the Wings art series. See UTW 66 in the artists website, Under the Wings gallery.

A BBC news article on Brent Martin, published Jan. 22, 2008