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Anj Smith: Misleading, Like Lace

Anj Smith: Misleading, Like Lace

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Anj Smith: Misleading, Like Lace

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about the edition

Limited edition of 35.

Copperplate etching & aquatint.

Anj Smith’s luscious visual languages explore issues of uncertainty, eroticism, mortality and anxiety. The imagery for this etching emerged from preliminary drawings for Smith’s site-specific installation at The Audley, London, and deals with themes around subversion and subjectivity.

Within the work Smith evokes the bleached, hyperreal worlds of Marilyn Moore’s poem ‘An Octopus’ (1924) and references the text in her title. Pouring like liquid through the tiniest of openings, an Octopus refutes categorisation, at one moment as smooth as glass, the next as roughly textured as its rocky surroundings. These creatures are vulnerable, yet powerfully strong, and by extension can be seen to represent the complexity of all beings.

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Details

  • Anj Smith (b. 1978)
  • Misleading, Like Lace
  • 2022
  • Copperplate etching & aquatint
  • Ed. 35 + 2 AP
  • 34 x 46 cm / 13 3/8 x 18 1/8 inches
  • Sold unframed

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Anj Smith: Misleading, Like Lace

$2,000.00
$2,000.00
| INC. VAT

Media

Copperplate etching & aquatint

Edition

Ed. 35 + 2 AP

Dimensions

34 x 46 cm / 13 3/8 x 18 1/8 inches

Printer

Himmelau, Finland

Smith has worked with etching as a process since the time of her postgraduate study. The artist was looking to counterbalance the intense personal immersion that she experienced whilst painting and found the antithetical psychology of printmaking odd and compelling. The limitless possibility that painting facilitates were suddenly impossible - even a subtle scratch onto a copper plate had to be executed with complete commitment and certainty or the plate was ruined.

Diamond panes first appeared in Smith’s work in the painting ‘False Steward’ (2019-20) in reference to the Harlequin character from the Commedia dell’arte, the notorious acrobatic trickster in charge of determining the narrative. This geometry invites a questioning of information sources, given language, and the contortion of established structures.

About the Printer

Himmelblau

For this edition Anj Smith collaborated with Himmelblau Printmaking Studio, Tampere, Finland. Founded in 1989, the workshop is located within the historic Finlayson factory area and employs some of the finest printers in Europe.  Artists are invited to the workshop to create new work, with the staff’s assistance.  Smith has worked on three projects with the studio, and this is the next step in their ongoing collaborations.