Overlook
Etching
Edition of 36
86.0 x 76.5 cm (33 3/4 x 30 1/2 in)
Signed & numbered by the artist
£1,500 + VAT
Recent works by Gillian Carnegie can be seen this month at Tate Britain London, as part of Painting Now: Five Contemporary Artists. The exhibition presents different responses to the specific practice of painting, with sharply contrasting approaches from the individual artists – Carnegie herself, Tomma Abts, Simon Ling, Lucy McKenzie and Catherine Story. Carnegie who was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2005 uses traditional painterly techniques and skills to push contemporary conceptual ideas in her paintings.
To link with the Tate Britain show, Manifold Editions is offering two etchings by Gillian Carnegie, Statue and Overlook. Both illustrate aspects of the architecturally striking Holly Lodge Estate in Highgate London, built in the 1920s by the Lady Workers Guild specifically to accommodate single women workers, which has provided subject-matter for a large body of paintings by the artist. In Statue the 1920s figure of a young women quietly – and self-sufficiently – reading reflects the feminist perspective of the original estate in supporting independent women, a theme explored elsewhere in Carnegie's work.
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