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Click Click Clack

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Ralph Steadman was born in 1936. His first memories are of nights spent in an Anderson Shelter, at the start of World War II, during the Blitz in Liverpool. Night after night, his mother and father would whisk Ralph and his older sister, Barbara, to the Anderson Shelter in the garden as bombs rained down. No-one knew what houses would be standing in the morning as a young Steadman and his family would emerge, and he would head off in search of Shrapnel, keepsakes of the terror from the night before. Steadman has vivid memories of the click click clack of his mother’s knitting needles, which beat a steady rhythm through the uncertainty and the darkness and the thunder of the bombs. During the first year of the war his parents moved their small family to the North Wales town of Abergele and Ralph has identified as Welsh ever since. They would never return to Liverpool, as their house was claimed by squatters after they left. The symbol of a lady knitting recurred several times in Steadman’s early works, the click click clack, echoing through his memories and his dreams. He draws these characters with a fondness and a calmness which would slowly become less common in his work as he grew as an artist and then eventually met Hunter S Thompson in 1970 on his first trip to the USA. Ink on paper c. 1962 6446 by 4814 png

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