Handfinished Liz - ARTISTS ARE NOT LIKE ATHLETES WE CANNOT WIN GOLD WE CANNOT 'BEAT' OTHER CREATIVES. WE CANNOT COME FIRST.

Handfinished 4 colour screenprint with unique colourway

Signed 1/1

330gsm Fedrigoni paper

70 x 78cm

ARTISTS ARE NOT LIKE ATHLETES WE CANNOT WIN GOLD WE CANNOT 'BEAT' OTHER CREATIVES. WE CANNOT COME FIRST. SPORT IS OBJECTIVE. OUR CRAFT IS SUBJECTIVE. CREATING TO 'BE THE BEST' IS A WASTE OF ENERGY. INSTEAD, CREATE TO CONNECT TO THE PEOPLE WHO NEED YOU.

BECAUSE THEY'RE OUT THERE. CREATE IN YOUR WAY, BECAUSE THERE IS NO RIGHT WAY. TAKE THE PRESSURE OFF, AND FOCUS ON YOUR UNIQUE BRAND OF MAGIC.

In the fifth feature film of her young career, the 12-year old Taylor starred as the titular Velvet Brown, a passionate little girl intent on breeding a prize-winning racehorse. The film won two Oscars, including Best Editing and Supporting Actress (Anne Revere). The film follows Mi Taylor (Mickey Rooney), a wayward vagabond whose lengthy travels through England leads him to the doorstep of the Brown family. Mi immediately befriends the Browns' youngest daughter, Velvet, and vows to help her groom a newly obtained racehorse named Pie to national prominence.

This image of Elizabeth Taylor is originally taken from a publicity photograph for Taylor’s film ‘Butterfield 8’ as the basis for the screenprint.

"There used to be a game, a joke, where you asked people to write the sign that should hang over your head or your life or something. And Roddy [McDowall] and Tennessee said that mine should read 'All Hungers Met,' because if there was a hunger for anything, I probably possessed it, and in my house, my company, you'd meet people who were hungry for just about everything. And I feed everyone, as you know. So pull up a chair, a plate, and an obsession. You're with me."

Elizabeth Taylor-Interview with James Grissom