Vessel Head (Van Gogh) by Brighid Lowe

Vessel Heads is an on-going series of inkjet prints of collaged vases and vessels with crudely cut out ‘smiley faces’. Their smiles can be read as both grin and grimace, and collectively the Vessel Heads record an emotional trajectory, in which humour and cruelty undercut each other. 

Vessel Head (Van Gogh) (2021), is the latest in the series, and was made specifically for the Van Gogh House.  

Product Information

420 x 594 mm (A2)
Digital Print on 230gsm Matt Paper
Edition of 45 (plus 5 APs)

About the Artist

Brighid Lowe is an artist who lives and works in London. Her work uses a wide variety of media and formats including text, photography, sculpture and drawing. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including Kunstmuseum Olten, Switzerland; Baltic 39, Newcastle Upon Tyne; Jerwood Foundation, London and Tate Britain. In 2018 she had her most recent solo exhibition at Coleman Projects, London. She was a recipient of a Paul Hamlyn Award for Artists in 1998.

She is an Associate Professor at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London.