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So I may come back

by Joyce Cronin
Charbel Ackermann, William Cobbing, Oona Grimes, Tony Grisoni, James Ireland, Tania Kovats, Albert Leonard, Sarah Woodfine at Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art July 2nd, 2010 - August 1st, 2010
Posted 7/10/10

The ten-year-old child killer Mary Bell wrote the disturbing note ‘I murder so that I may come back’. Exactly what she could have meant by this is impossible to interpret, but rather than ‘come back’ she became a figure who never left. Like Myra Hindley and the James Bolger killers, to name just two examples, women and children who kill penetrate the public conscience like no other crime. With references to film, the natural world and reality, the current group exhibition... [more]