Bloody Hell! Toxic Power in King Charles’ Portrait of Planet … Confronting the Colonial Mindset

If Machiavelli and Lady Macbeth had a baby he would look something like the Portrait of King Charles III - a karmic depiction of human ugly, toxic power at its most macabre, noxious and nihilistic, the apocalyptic legacy of Empire inherited and claimed as he morphs into the role of Monarch on whose shoulder sits planetary doom, hands and faced stroked with blood. Art defies artistic intent, sitter's expectations to define its own truths Dr Kris Rampersad explores art artist sitter and society..,