Photogravure and lithograph43 3/4 x 54 3/4 in (111.1 x 139.1 cm)
Edition of 41
Smith is a radically inventive artist whose transgressive early works confronted mortality and bodily decay, while her more recent work
on
paper explores nature, portraiture, and fairy tales. Printmaking became an essential part of Smith’s practice during the mid-1980s, and she persistently pushes the medium’s boundaries not only of style, technique, and imagery but also between print, drawing, and book. To create the hand colored photogravure and lithograph My Blue Lake, Smith used the British Museum’s 360-degree periphery camera to take an encompassing self portrait. She blends her features into landscape, transforming her skin into a lake and her hair into mountains or shore.
paper explores nature, portraiture, and fairy tales. Printmaking became an essential part of Smith’s practice during the mid-1980s, and she persistently pushes the medium’s boundaries not only of style, technique, and imagery but also between print, drawing, and book. To create the hand colored photogravure and lithograph My Blue Lake, Smith used the British Museum’s 360-degree periphery camera to take an encompassing self portrait. She blends her features into landscape, transforming her skin into a lake and her hair into mountains or shore.