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Lady Back

Print
2006 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Slawa Harasymowicz (born Krakow, Poland) graduated from the Royal College of Art, London, with an MA in Visual Communication and Design. In 2005 she won the student award in the V&A Illustration Awards. Her work makes use of found images, family photographs and her own photographs, which she reworks as drawings, and then translates again as screenprints. Archetypes - the strongman, the uniformed military figure - are imbued with elements of personal narrative which nevertheless remain obscure or oblique. The prints are often altered by hand, and are invariably printed in different colours so that an 'edition' will be made up of a series of 'unique multiples'. They have the graphic economy and impact of posters, and she has acknowledged the inspiration of 1950s Polish poster art.


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleLady Back (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Screenprint on paper
Brief description
Screenprint, 'Lady Back', Slawa Harasymowicz, 2006.
Physical description
Back view of female figure with arms raised.
Dimensions
  • Sheet height: 599mm
  • Sheet width: 599mm
  • Image height: 502mm
  • Image width: 502mm
Marks and inscriptions
11/15/VE Slawa Harasymowicz Lady Back 2006 (Edition number; signature; title; date. All in pencil.)
Credit line
Given by the artist
Subject depicted
Summary
Slawa Harasymowicz (born Krakow, Poland) graduated from the Royal College of Art, London, with an MA in Visual Communication and Design. In 2005 she won the student award in the V&A Illustration Awards. Her work makes use of found images, family photographs and her own photographs, which she reworks as drawings, and then translates again as screenprints. Archetypes - the strongman, the uniformed military figure - are imbued with elements of personal narrative which nevertheless remain obscure or oblique. The prints are often altered by hand, and are invariably printed in different colours so that an 'edition' will be made up of a series of 'unique multiples'. They have the graphic economy and impact of posters, and she has acknowledged the inspiration of 1950s Polish poster art.
Collection
Accession number
E.1461-2010

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Record createdJanuary 12, 2011
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