Hamilton icon, Lewis Mallard, has captured the heart and soul of the city since he first launched his character persona in the early days of Covid. Creatively connecting with the local community initially through spontaneous public appearances as a self-made mallard duck, Lewis has since expanded his fun and playful artistic practice to include the creation of paintings, drawings and prints.
As Lewis Mallard describes, the narrative presented in this work was informed by a comically odd encounter witnessed some years ago between a goose and a dandelion. In a reasonable attempt to source a plentiful snack supply, this goose seemed to think a dandelion head could be worth a try. Turns out It didn’t cut the mustard. Quick ingestion resulted in equally quick expulsion, but gratefully equally generative material for a new artwork too. Creation of a unique issue for the 2023 Smokestack Quarterly proved to be the perfect opportunity to relive and translate this memory into an ambitious 13-layer silkscreen print.
