Lino and silkscreen created for ‘Swansea Print Workshop’s 25th Anniversary Book Project’

Dimensions: 22 x 22cm

Limited edition of 60

My homage to Big Apple Kiosk, Swansea’s rarest, unusual and recognised historical landmark.

It sits above Bracelet Bay in Mumbles, built in the 1930s by the company Cidatone, which placed several Apple kiosks around Wales and England’s coastal towns. It went on to serve ice-creams, candy floss, bucket and spades for over three decades.

However, the Mumbles Big Apple is believed to be the only survivor, and it barely survives today, unused and crumbling.

I used the same viewpoint, in the accompanying print Apple 1930’s showing the heyday of the Apple in it's beginnings in the Interwar period (See Apple 1930’s), then onto this print of early 2000s, bringing the attention to the viewer that nothing has changed in terms of the structure and surrounding landscape, but we mortals do.