Tank Army
by Glenn McLay

Exhibition 7th - 17th December 2005

Tank Army, taking almost a year to complete, started out as a hobby but towards the end became an obsession for Glenn McLay. He's arranged his army of tanks in attack formation, but no enemy is in sight. The beige camouflage colouring the tanks are reminiscent of desert-sand camouflage but on closer inspection the camouflage is a  collage of media-whore skin from glamour magazines. Tank army is a work about the idea of invasion, conquest, control and passion. It is also a comment on the repetitious mass reproduction of potentially useless yet harmful images and the dangers of over-organisation and efficiency. Are the tanks trying to slip into the city unnoticed?

From WWI until the atomic age the tank represented the most powerful tactical offence weapon on the battlefield.  The name Tank Army is derived from the fast moving mass soviet tank formation which caused so much chaos, destruction, fear, panic and confusion in Europe at the end of WWII

Although Glenn's art practice has previously centred around photography and more recently collage works, he is an accomplished model maker who has always held the belief that there is nothing that can't be fashioned out of cardboard and masking tape.
Come get tanked.