Grateful to be invited to browse, we poured through her racks of archived artworks which have been held back from view over the years. Donovan has often wanted to retain at least one work from each collection produced and as such the selection that follows has rarely been exhibited. 

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Most of these works were produced around the time that Donovan was exhibiting alongside Banksy at London's (now closed) Lazarides Gallery, at this time Lazarides was a global forerunner in representing street artist's commercial artwork. In this set of works Donovan's mixed media technique results in a host of textural artworks; some pieces have the appearance of metal steel sheets with rivets (made from resin), whilst others of brick walls (made of mixed media).

 

At times, the works resemble magnified, life‑size sections of the very surfaces a street artist might choose as their “canvas”.  At other times, they read as an entire brick wall seen at a distance wherein the brickwork itself is rendered on a miniature scale with meticulous attention to detail.

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