Tessa Lynch, Rhona Warwick Paterson / Endless Care
2021
Collagraph print on paper38 × 32 cm
Serise of 6, edition of 5
On the occasion of the exhibtion 'MADE ON THE TABLE' (Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, 2022), Tessa Lynch worked with Rhona Warwick Paterson to develop a series of collagraph and relief prints. This serise documents the products of this collaboration while also offering an allegorical narrative involving two of the artists featured in the exhibition 'Domestic Bliss' (Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow) Nicola L and Niki de Saint Phalle, who Lynch has described as models for her and Warwick Paterson’s collaboration.
Each of the images in this series refer to – and bear the literal imprint of – screwed up paper, cleaning product branding, a Lithuanian envelope, kitchen toweling and typewriter ribbon. Anarchically positioned what we see in these images might recall the parole in libertà of Futurism or Dada, but references to household routine and creative friendship subvert the hyper-masculine energy of the historical avant-gardes.