Lisa Brice
Untitled, 2025
15 colour silkscreen plus glaze on Somerset Velvet Warm White 400gsm, hot pressed paper
42 x 30cm
Edition of 60, signed and numbered by the artist
The Hepworth Wakefield are delighted to release this printed edition of our Lisa Brice acquisition Untitled, 2019.
Brice explores portraiture and its intersection with the history of women in visual culture. Transcribing her figures from initial photographs into the vivid hue of blue paint that has become characteristic in her work, she uses this repeated motif to confront the ongoing issue of women's objectification in the media. This work is based on a photograph of the proto-feminist icon and surrealist painter Frida Kahlo smoking a cigarette. Interested in how female artists have been depicted and have depicted themselves, Brice has said 'historical figuration seems invariably created by white men for an audience of predominantly white men. Sometimes the simple act of repainting an image of a woman previously painted by a man – re-authoring the work as by a woman – can be a potent shift in itself.'
Brice has collaborated on this edition with The Hepworth Wakefield. All funds raised through the sale of the edition allow us to present ambitious and captivating exhibitions, care for our growing art collection and new garden, and deliver a programme of engaging learning activities that enhances lives.
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