Description

Five-colour lithograph on Somerset warm white velvet 400gsm paper. Edition of 250. 43.5 x 23.5 cm | 17 1/8 x 9 1/4 in. £3,000.00. Dream and Refuge (2020) shows a woman asleep, wrapped in a printed cloth, and was created with displaced people in mind. Rather than presenting the woman as an object of pity, however, Armitage shows her as an individual with a rich interior world, represented by the imagery crowding the outside of the picture space. This dreamscape includes falling figures and the star found on the prow of a sailing dhow that bestows good luck on those who travel, while in the print of her wrap we find the hornbill from a creation myth associated with motherhood, loss and creation.