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Artist: Maria Rivans
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Title: Grace
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Year of Release: 2023
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Medium: Original hand cut collage on hand made Rough Natural Arches Aquarelle 640gsm paper with deckled edges
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Framing: White grained box frame, the print is high floated by 5mm and dry mounted to aluminium core (to show the deckled edges of the hand made Arches Aquarelle paper) and low reflection glass
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Edition: 1/1 Original
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Dimensions WxH: 114cm x 85cm
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Notes: ‘Grace’ – Maria Rivans’s first ever landscape-oriented pin-up – is a vision of elegance and sophistication. Named for Jane Fonda’s role in the hit television series Grace and Frankie, ‘Grace' begins with a digitally enhanced image of Fonda, printed onto Canson Photo Rag Paper for a smooth and flawless greyscale texture. What follows is Rivans’s response to this portrait of profound calm and serenity: a delicate collage crafted out of soft matt flowers, birds, butterflies, and beasts to represent the tapestry of Fonda’s varied life – a shining star, a political activist, an outspoken supporter of environmental, feminist and LGBTQ+ causes, and still an inspiration at 85. But this is more than a celebration of one woman: blossoming with symbolism – from the ace of spades for positivity, to a prowling lion for courage, and a unicorn for the magic of nature – Rivans’s collage captures the grace and beauty of a life lived to the full. Or as the poet Frank O’Hara put it: ‘Grace to be born and live as variously as possible’.