Hurvin Anderson: Sea Grape
2024
Screenprint on Somerset Velvet 300gsm
Edition of 60
The ten stencils were made directly from drawings that the artist had made on drafting film. The image was proofed three times, and the artist was closely involved at each stage. The edition was printed by hand in fourteen colours.
Paper size: 60.5 x 81cm
Image size: 42.2 x 64cm
About the artist:
Born in Birmingham to Jamaican parents, Anderson’s practice touches upon his Jamaican heritage as well as referencing wider art history. His work explores themes of memory, identity and nationhood. His scenes shift between abstract and representational focus. He frequently overlays his paintings with decorative screens and abstract patterns which interfere with the landscapes underneath. He was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2017. A major solo exhibition of Anderson’s ‘Salon Paintings’ was held at The Hepworth Wakefield (May - Nov 23), Hastings Contemporary (Nov 23 - Mar 24) and is due to open at Kistefos Museum, Norway in May.
Collections include: British Council; Contemporary Art Museum St Louis; Government Art Collection, London; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C. Kistefos Foundation, Norway; Pallant House Gallery, Chichester; Sunderland Museum; Tate Modern;The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Zabludowicz Trust, London; University of Warwick Art Collection.
Hurvin Anderson first began collaborating with Kip Gresham, in 2018 working on his print for the Government Art Collection ‘Still Life with Artificial Flowers’.