Dirt track racing was a new and incredibly popular motorsport during the 1920s and 1930s. In Claude Flight’s print, a series of interlocking shapes and colours represent crash helmets, grass plots and competitors, an abstract view of the swirling racetrack from the driver’s point of view rather than the spectator’s. Flight was a firm believer that art was for everyone, to be lived with everyday in every house. He saw the linocut as the perfect artform to achieve this democratic goal, writing in 1927 that if artists produced large editions of their linocuts (around fifty or more) this would lend help to keep the price affordable. Ambitiously, he felt they should be about the price of a ticket to the cinema or a pint of beer.

(One O'Clock Jump: British Linocuts from the Jazz Age, 7 December 2024 - 11 May 2025)