Mary Ramsden | Plate Lick (2015)

Mary Ramsden | Plate Lick (2015)[[specs start]] Sugar lift aquatint and spit bite etching. 30. 6 x 25. 6 cm [12. 05 x 10. 08 inches]. Edition of 35, signed and numbered recto. [[specs end]] [[work start]] About the work Mary Ramsdens paintings explore the space between virtual images and the object. Usings rags and brushes as well as her own hands, she produces marks and textures that allude to the cropping and zooming methods of a digital operator and the swipe action that

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Sugar lift aquatint and spit bite etching.
30.6 x 25.6 cm [12.05 x 10.08 inches].
Edition of 35, signed and numbered recto.

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About the work

Mary Ramsden’s paintings explore the space between virtual images and the object. Usings rags and brushes as well as her own hands, she produces marks and textures that allude to the cropping and zooming methods of a digital operator and the swipe action that activates a smart phone. For her edition for the Whitechapel Gallery Ramsden has made a single gesture or ‘swipe’ directly onto the copper etching plate, which has then been printed to create a varied edition of 35 sugar lift aquatints.
This edition was produced to accompany Ramsden’s paintings on display in The London Open 2015, the Whitechapel Gallery’s triennial open submission exhibition, from 15 July–6 September 2015.

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About the artist

British artist Mary Ramsden was born in 1984, and has studied at the Royal Academy, London, Edinburgh College of Art and Leith School of Art, Edinburgh. Her works are known for being “unapologetically painterly” but are always abstract in composition and strategic in refusal of referential readings. A sense of simplicity and compositional unity belies the complexity of their making. Ramsden decisively applies layers of paint using brushes and rags as well as her own hands, but subsequently wipes them away to create gradual build up of repetitive layers through the conflicting actions of doing and undoing. The artist’s gesture takes centre stage, but not only the energised swing of the arm but the aftermath of the action.

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Selected Exhibitions

Recent exhibitions include Swipe, Pilar Corrias, London (2015); I am here but you’ve gone, curated by Milovan Farronato with Stella Bottai, Fiorucci Art Trust, London (2015); Panda Sex, curated by Tom Morton, State of Concept, Athens (2014); New order II: British art today, Saatchi Gallery, London (2014); Consommé, Kinman, London (2013); Open Heart Surgery at The Moving Museum, London (2013); Temple Bar in Dublin (2012); and New Contemporaries, UK (2009).

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Whitechapel Gallery editions are generously donated by the artists. All proceeds from the sale of these works directly support our exhibition and education programmes.

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