Dexter Dalwood

Gagosian Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner in November 2010

London, Tate, Turner Prize, December 2010

Charlotte Higgins, 'Turner prize puts Iraq horror centre stage," The Guardian, 4 October 2010, n.p.

“The new work, by Dexter Dalwood, is titled White Flag, a reference to the famous Jasper Johns painting of the same name. In fact, the American artist's whited-out stars and stripes are transformed into a forbidding blank wall in Dalwood's picture…Part of the imagery in the painting is derived from a video game...called Six Days In Fallujah, which aimed to recreate the notorious 2004 Iraq war battle from the point of view of a US marine...Dalwood's unpeopled, meticulously researched paintings are, according to Turner prize exhibition co-curator Katherine Stout, “visual testaments to individual moments in history" – a kind of modern equivalent of the grand history paintings of the 19th century, but packed with references and direct quotes from art of the past, and are "evoking a feeling," rather than providing a direct narrative.”

- Charlotte Higgins, ‘Turner Prize Puts Iraq Horror Centre Stage," The Guardian, 4 October 2010, n.p.