Limited Edition Digitally Signed Print - Dream or Nightmare? by Sally de Courcy

Paper size: W:297mm x H:420mm

Artwork size (excluding border): W:263mm x H:386mm

Limited Edition of 15

Digitally printed on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308gsm

Frame Required

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About the artwork

Dream or Nightmare? is an autobiographical response to the recent pandemic. Faces with a dream-like quality explore the surreality of being isolated in lockdown as an immunocompromised artist and medically retired doctor. The work is personal, just as the artist has had to rebuild herself piece by piece so the sculpture has evolved by using repeated metaphorical objects that relate to the pandemic. Femurs reference mortality and are combined with driftwood - symbolic of feeling beached (stranded) and like the virus returns in waves. Both are vestigial remains and are therefore rendered to look like bone. When viewed, the contextual links are re-assembled to reveal a narrative. Arms reflect the inability to embrace, and the bats the vector of Covid 19 invade the sculpture. The work is bound by clean bandages expressing a desire for a healed post pandemic world. They also reference the artists medical past and mixed identity as a patient and allude to Florence Nightingale and the Nightingale hospitals. The work is decorative but reveals the darker aspects of the pandemic, creating dissonance. The sum becomes a surreal, optical puzzle oscillating between dream and nightmare.

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