I only recently discovered the work of Carel Weight (1908-1997) thanks to my good friend, Gary Zammit. Weight first exhibited in the early thirties before becoming an official war artist and having a long and distinguished artistic and academic career.
Weight's recurrent subject matter is bizarre occurences in urban settings, whether it be the frenzied chair attack in 'Anger' (top), mystical visitations ('The Departing Angel', middle) or a 'Quatermass & The Pit' style phantasmagoria of fantastic imagery in a London street ('Hammersmith Nights', bottom). In other pictures, people are attacked by lions, or flee from mini- apocalypses, or just stand in stunned, awkward silence. His work is brilliant, profoundly odd and highly recommended.
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