James McQueen|Double Take
All Double Take Works By James McQueen (3)
Significance & Analysis
'Double Take' moved McQueen's lenticulars on from reworking earlier images. His first, the two 'Volume' panels of December 2024, remastered covers from his 2022 debut and sold out quickly. This second collection has twice as many panels, and most of its designs are new.
A title that does what it says
A double take is the second look you give something you think you have misread, and the title can be read as a description of the format: look again from another angle and the picture has changed. McQueen chooses his titles to suggest a story without spelling it out, and 'I Did It For You / The Money' puts both halves of a punchline into its name. Each piece is presented as a contrast held in a single frame: humour giving way to honesty, surface to subtext.
Titles with a history
Two of the lines were already familiar. 'Nobody Gets Out Sober' returns from 2025, when McQueen issued it as a print in his 'Special Edition' pair themed on a night out. 'Too Cool To Give A Fuck' had been a canvas before it became a panel: McQueen painted the line in 2025.
