Lady Back
Print
2006 (made)
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 | |
Title | Lady 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 |
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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 created | January 12, 2011 |
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