The triptych of drawings comprising Richard I - III is directly influenced by Robert Mapplethorpe’s semi-nude photographic series of the actor Richard Gere. Fowler describes this work as a piece of “remembered imagery” – a scene which lingers in one’s memory for reasons that seem ephemeral and ambiguous. In his 1980 film American Gigolo, Gere’s character gets dressed whilst dancing half-naked. There is a delicacy and tremulousness to the compositions, guiding the viewer towards the sexual implications that weigh in from beyond the image’s frame. Depicting Gere like this, Fowler touches on the theme of male gender objectification in both artistic and cinematic imagery. She renders Gere as absolute icon, exuding the empty promises underneath the Hollywood sheen — the irrepressible ‘cool’ and ‘pin-up’ qualities with which the male star is loaded. Alluding to the deific, empowered status attributed to actors like Gere, Fowler’s title is a nod to the notion of screen royalty.