Art Project course gallery 

Assignment: Let’s Play Monopoly

Our starting point for this brief was the popular board game Monopoly, with artists invited to take inspiration from the design and visual elements of the game itself, as well as consider other ideas about the game – low-end and high-end property locations, commerce and capitalism, luck, chance and more…

Here is work made by some of the participating course artists:

Moira – You Win Again!
Graphite on paper

Becky E. – GO!
Graphite on paper

Becky E. – Monopoly Duck
Graphite on paper

Becky E. – Monopoly Duck
Graphite on paper

Jane – Preparatory sketches from the six tokens
Graphite

Jane – Abstract 1 (in Monopoly board colours)
Acrylics

Jane – Abstract 2 (in Monopoly board colours)
Stabilo ‘Woody’ crayons
Dieter – Anteros
Drypoint, letter, stamp and mono print on paper
Maria Lewandowski – A Bit of Monopoly Fun
Watercolour and fine liner
Maurice – The Grave Maurice, Whitechapel Road
Ink and digital composite

Maurice – Art by Chance
Digital painting and ink sketches
Artist’s text: Purpose – the random placing of colours on a Monopoly proportioned board divided into segments representing different sized property square templates.
Rules – using two dice. 1, Select size of template. 2, Select position of template on surface. 3. Select orientation of templates. 4. select colour.

Maurice – My Property Portfolio
Ink drawing, digital drawing and digital collage
Artist’s text: Rules – use dice for number of properties in composition. Shuffle Title Deed Cards and deal appropriate number. Form properties into collage. Colour properties in relevant Monopoly colours

Christie Archer – Architectural Monopoly – Children’s version
Coloured paper collage and photoshop digital drawing

Christie Archer –  Architectural Monopoly – Adult version
Watercolour and photoshop digital drawing

Harriet – Cornering the property market worldwide (with data from globalpropertyguide.com)
Collage and mixed media

Jo Melhuish – Monopoly: nothing changes!
Ink & watercolour on card

Hilary – Monopoly 2021
Acrylic on paper
Diana Boydell – Untitled from Monopoly Series
Photograph
Diana Boydell – Untitled from Monopoly Series
Photograph
Diana Boydell – Untitled from Monopoly Series
Photograph