It Weren't Me Dad
Maker
Deborah Duffield
Production date
2004
Description
In this painting Deborah Duffield has utilised a wealth of family images, captured predominantly by her photography enthusiast grandfather, to document a moment familiar in many childhood memories. This image depicting three young boys is based on a photograph from the 1950s. The boy trying to conceal the cricket bat (without much success) is Duffield’s father. The scene is set in the interior of the family council house in Redcar, Yorkshire where her grandparents lived and Duffield visited as a child. Although the scene is not based on an actual event, it is typical of the many stories told to her by her father.
Deborah Duffield (1968–) was born in Wales. She later completed an Honours Degree from Wintec, Hamilton. While studying she developed an interest in documenting the everyday in oils. She was particularly drawn to the idea of the flâneur, Charles Baudelaire’s 19th Century persona who walked the streets, having a key role in understanding the city as both observer and detached participant. In her current practice Duffield takes on the role of the observer, often taking covert photographs from the hip, catching her subjects unawares and translating these often detached snapshots of banal moments to the canvas. Duffield is based in Hamilton.
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