Game Art: Megan Davies' "Gran Turismo" (2005)

""Gran Turismo", painted by Megan Davies in 2005 and now in a private collection, shows two boys on a sofa absorbed by a video game. The boys are in jeans. Their grandmother sits curled up beside them in traditional north Indian dress, modified by a cardigan. She looks distant from her grandsons' fascination and also perplexed by it. Her slippers and a tin of Cadbury's Roses lie on the floor. In its way, it is as much of a Victorian story-painting as Ford Madox Brown's: Leisure, a story without a hero other than the one on the screen." (Ian Jack, The Guardian, 2007)

link: Megan Davies

Submitted by Matteo Bittanti