Rupert Murdoch, an Australian immigrant, began investing in American media in 1973. In 1985 he became a US citizen so that he could own majority stakes in US television networks. Despite owning such a large portion of UK media, Murdoch was never accepted by the people as British, his frustration at this was well documented.
The following is a fabricated gift to Murdoch from his close friend and editor Kelvin Mackenzie, said to have originally been intended as a display case for a set of cancelled commemorative coins celebrating each of Murdoch’s major UK newspapers. The artist then claims that stereotype got hold of the display case and filled it with a set of Paddington Bear commemorative coins, another immigrant to the UK who contrastingly became accepted as the epitome of Britishness.
Handmade oak display case, 50p coins, readymade lining paper, red fleece fabric, 240*120*120mm
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