No matter how much you love someone, if they don’t rinse all the soap off the dishes or leave the paper on the butter when it’s been opened, it can be frustrating.
For Lizzie Swann, the thing that annoyed her about her husband was his tendency to leave empty wrappers on the kitchen surface.Instead of putting his oatcake wrapper in the bin, he wrote out a description like the ones beside famous pieces of art.He added his name, Tomas McAuley, and explained the work is ‘mixed media: oatcake wrapper on marble’.
Adding a description, he says: ‘ Part of the famed ‘Annoyes’ school of visual artists, McAuley’s works have long sought to shock and to disturb, but ultimately to deepen our collective understanding of the human condition.