Wilhelmina Peace, Demoiselles, work on paper (etching), 66 x 66 cm
Year: 2024
Medium(s): etching with aquatint, sugar lift and drypoint on Hahnemuhle paper
Size: 66 x 66 cm (image / plate size: 50 x 50 cm)
8 editions, numbered and signed
- £500.00
Shipping - Collection from the gallery's office in 3-5 business days. Shipped in 3-5 business days from Northern Ireland, UK.
Return - This work is eligible for return.
Artist - Selected Recognitions
- Recipient of the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair Prize (UK)
- Extensively exhibited in Northern Ireland, Dublin, London, and internationally (incl. Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition in Belfast, and Bankside Gallery in London)
- Work included in private collections nationally and internationally
Further information
Wilhelmina Peace's commentary about this work
This piece emerged from a visual novel I have been developing since 2019. The book is a semi-autobiographical fairy tale infused with surreal sensibilities. Throughout the work, I explore the House as a metaphor for the Self. In this image, I explored the living room as a psychological space, reflecting on gossip, secrecy, and the fragile boundaries between intimacy and exclusion.
Influenced by my studies in anthropology, I became interested in how gossip can both bind communities together and cast others out, thus shaping notions of otherness within the collective imagination. The two women are suspended in an intimate exchange; perhaps sharing a secret, perhaps trading gossip. Positioned closely together, their bodies obscured by billowing hair, they begin to merge into a single amorphous form, bound together by their shared knowledge.
Wilhelmina Peace is an award-winning emerging artist and printmaker. Working across drawing and printmaking, particularly etching and lithography, Peace’s practice is deeply informed by her background in anthropology. Her work explores myth, fairytale, and folklore as frameworks through which she examines the inner processes of the human psyche and personal development.
Find out more about Wilhelmina Peace and view all her works on the artist's page.
