Sitting duck

Depicts a frieze of images of duck's heads and peace symbols, interwoven with barbed wire in various colours. The 'Sitting Duck' work of art is one of nine friezes completed by the artist that relate to her 'Warpaper' series of screenprints, which comment on the implications of war on society, in particular, the first Gulf War (1990-1991). Evans uses familiar objects and images to lure the viewer into assuming that her work is merely a decoartive piece, but causes the viewer instead to confront and re-evaluate the war related pictorical images of everyday objects. 'Sitting Duck' echoes an innocuous wall paper frieze. Of this work, Evans makes the following references to ducks; 'A duck shoot is a massacre/ Sitting ducks are a soft target/ Dead ducks are doomed'.