Description

Lithograph in 6 colours. Dimensions: 60.5 x 48.5 cm. Edition of 40, signed and numbered. Launch Price: £450 (including VAT). For the Whitechapel Gallery, Unwin has generously created a new lithograph, entitled Marble Head. Available in an edition of 40, this beautiful print is the artist's first work in the medium. To make the image, Unwin reuses motifs and patterns from previous works - the dots are from a wood-block print, the architectural arch is from a 'stone wall' model making paper and the tie-dye, from studies made in the artist's sketchbook. Unwin also incorporates elements of the lithographic process - tape marks and scissor-cut edges of the lithographic film remain visible. By layering and repeating these translucent elements, Unwin retains a sense of construction and process. The head, a recurring figure in Unwin's work, represents a presence of character, thought or feeling. Occupying much of the pictorial space and printed in pale magenta, it is a permeable form - the marbling effect suggests a distant landscape or map, tightly connecting tissues of a brain, as well as classical sculpture. Within the print there is a sense of shifting space and scale, between a monumental stone arch and the pattern of a tie-dye t-shirt.