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Nick Willing

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
742 total appearances

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Nick Willing on Paula Rego

It's a funny thing that.

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Nick Willing on Paula Rego

And this is an exhibition that tells the story of her life through her drawing.

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Nick Willing on Paula Rego

So it starts with the drawing she made.

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Nick Willing on Paula Rego

of her grandmother when she was six years old.

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Nick Willing on Paula Rego

And it ends with a picture of her as a grandmother, just before she dies, of her granddaughter.

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Nick Willing on Paula Rego

And in between, we see all the various mediums, experiments, stories that she tells throughout her life.

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Nick Willing on Paula Rego

And that's one of the best ways I think of understanding her life is through her drawings.

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Nick Willing on Paula Rego

So we've very carefully picked drawings that express what she's going through at that moment.

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Nick Willing on Paula Rego

Well, you put it very well.

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Nick Willing on Paula Rego

That's exactly, I think, what's happening.

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Nick Willing on Paula Rego

She also took photographs because she wanted to see what the picture looked like.

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Nick Willing on Paula Rego

It's a funny thing.

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Nick Willing on Paula Rego

When you're making a picture, you're so involved.

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Nick Willing on Paula Rego

I should know because she'd tell me this over and over again.

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Nick Willing on Paula Rego

You get so sort of lost and involved in what you're doing.

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Nick Willing on Paula Rego

that sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees.

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Nick Willing on Paula Rego

So what she would do is take a picture of it and then she carried it in her purse and she'd take it out as if to surprise herself.

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Nick Willing on Paula Rego

She'd go, oh no, hang on, that's wrong on the left.

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Nick Willing on Paula Rego

Sometimes when I write a piece, I look at it, reread it, reread it, reread it on my computer and it seems okay.

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Nick Willing on Paula Rego

But it's not until I've printed it out and look at it in a different format that I see all the mistakes.