This painting from 1998 is a bitter comment on Modern Britain, made at the time when London was enjoying its reputation as the fashion "capital of cool".
It is set on Holborn Viaduct in London. On top of the viaduct are Arts Council officials, artist Damien Hirst, politician Peter Mandelson, businessmen, scientists and their mad-cow creations. Mandelson is holding the Millenium Dome and Hirst is holding a pickled sheep.
Under the viaduct are the poor, whose contributions to the National lottery keep the arts going.
Photographed in the Museum of London
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