Myra (painting) Myra (painting) Myra is a large painting created by Marcus Harvey in 1995. It was displayed at the "Sensation" exhibition of Young British Artists at the Royal Academy of Art in London from 8 September to 28 December 1997. The work measures . At first sight, it resembles a greatly magnified version of a black and white photograph printed in a newspaper. It was made using casts of an infant's hand to build up a mosaic of black, grey and white handprints, creating a reproduction of the iconic police photograph of a hard-faced Myra Hindley with bouffant peroxide blonde hair
Marcus Harvey a plaster cast of a child’s hand, and shown in the "Sensation" exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art in 1997. The painting had to be temporarily removed from display for repair after it was attacked in two separate incidents on the opening day, in which ink and eggs were thrown at it. "The Times" newspaper's art critic, Richard Cork, wrote that: Harvey's current work combines painting, photography, and sculpture while exploring British iconography in pop culture, the landscape, and cultural history. These recent works include thick gestural figurative paintings made on top of and obscuring photographic prints of landscapes