Artwork details

Artist

Title

Goodbye with Smile

Description

A new work by our young lithographer who was 2019 winner of the Jerwood Printmaking Today Prize. Uniquely, the artist starts out by writing some words which eventually inspire her images. Beautifully executed on a metal plate, whimsical and colourful this print is about a young woman who gets divorced and wants to get on with life "....I have no time to mourn or to curse. There's so much work to do and I have to think of my happiness as a woman. So I'll say goodbye with a smile, you idiot!" (Full text available)

Date

2019

Medium

Lithograph

Edition

Signature

Signed

Sheet

98 x 76 cm

Status

Sold

Chika Osaka

Chika Osaka was born in Tokyo in 1984 where she still lives. She graduated from the Tokyo University of the Arts with a Bachelor’s degree in painting, and went on to gain a Masters degree in print-making. She studied under the lithography print-making master Takemi Azumaya and it was due to his influence that Osaka chose lithography as her print-making medium. She says that in metal plate lithography she can show minute details, work with a fluidity of colours and can add other methods such as embossing. Osaka’s works are frequently beautifully and brightly coloured with details of human figures. Unusually for an artist, the artist starts not by sketching but by writing a sentence or paragraph taken from everyday occurrences. She then creates a soliloquy around these words within an imaginary scene. Each image is inspired and accompanied by her written word. Osaka has exhibited in solo and group shows throughout Japan, in Munich, Bern and in London. Her works are in the permanent collections of the Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts. Tokyo; Zhejiang Art Museum, China; Peninsula Art Museum, Shanghai.