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Kennedy Browne, Whiddy Island, Ireland's Strategic Oil Reserve, [September 10th 2007], black and white photograph, 2007
Kennedy Browne. Advertising jingle for the Gulf Oil Corporation, 1968 (plays on headphones to subtitles on monitor), DVD, 3 minutes, 2007
Jingle Lyrics:
I'm an able bodied sailor and I've often crossed the line
On whaling ships and sailing ships and ships of ev-er-y kind
But now I've got the very best job I've had for many a day
I'm workin' on the tanker bringing oil to Bantry Bay
Hey!
Bringin' home the oil, me boys, bringin' home the oil!
Sailin' all around the world, bringin' home the oil!
A' workin' on a giant ship, it's very hard we toil,
Sailin' into Bantry Bay, bringin' home the oil!
She is the biggest ship me lad that's ever sailed the sea
But graceful as a swan she goes, we sail her at our ease
From Araby around Cape Hope we proudly make our way
And keep all Europe moving from our base in Bantry Bay
Hey!
Exhibited at
'Current Trends - Past Prospects', solo exhibition at Pallas Contemporary Projects, November 2007
