Girls, Girls, Girls lithograph by Cathie Pilkington

Girls, Girls, Girls lithograph by Cathie Pilkington

Girls, Girls, Girls

The Graphic Works of Cathie Pilkington & Paula Rego
Preview
Wednesday 8th May 6-8pm
Exhibition 9th May to 8th June 2019

 ‘Girls, Girls, Girls’ is an exhibition of lithographs by Cathie Pilkington & Paula Rego and is a celebration of two women artists who whilst generationally apart make their artworks around unconventional and transgressive images of femininity. ‘I want to do some of what the men have been doing with the (female) body but kind of on my own terms.’ Cathie Pilkington is best known for her sculptural and installation work but she is also a prolific lithographer as her recent show at Pallant House showed when she displayed her printmaking and sculptural work alongside artworks from the Pallant collection throwing up unexpected juxtapositions, creating playful visual relationships and prompting the viewer to look again at familiar works. ‘That’s the thing that unites all the work, the installation, the two dimensional work and the sculpture is this, the action of bricolage of things being made up and composed of different elements which play against each other….What’s happened as time has gone on is that I realised the thinking process for making prints is very, very similar to my thinking for making sculpture and the way I built the final images is by making limbs and elements which are playfully re-combined. What I’m looking for really is the psychological element and the way I made the choices is very much to do with holding something back as well as something being implied.