THE sight of a burglar skulking through a quiet suburban garden is usually cause for alarm.
But homeowners had nothing to fear from a crawling crook dragging a bag of swag past the window of an Chester bungalow last week.
Student Emma Stephenson created the unnerving artwork – which included a menacing ‘hoodie’ with crowbar leaning against the garage door and a shocked onlooker at the window – as an undergraduate degree project.
The owners of the house on Sutton Drive in Upton, which is currently for sale, allowed Emma to use it as a temporary canvas for her eyecatching creations.
But all three pictures were swiftly removed from the property in time for a viewing on Tuesday, March 13.
Emma, who is from the Wirral, said the artwork was meant as a ‘humorous comment’ on the fears of those living peacefully in British suburbia.
She said: “The work I put up on Sutton Drive was a site specific project as part of my second year fine art undergraduate course at the University of Chester which I entitled ‘Home Invasion’.
“It symbolises the threat of urban life in a quiet residential neighbourhood, typically occupied by aged members of our populations.”
