The End That Hurts (no contact). 2023

Collage on Rivoli off-white paper backed by foam board. The main body of the work was drawn in archival black ink pen during an online art therapy session in late 2022, the drawing has been removed from the notebook and cut to fit the smaller Rivoli paper that the artist uses in every other work in the series. In late November of 2022 Niamh began searching Etsy for old French fabric with which to decorate their apartment, she came across a seller with hundreds of pieces going back to the 17th century and she thought of using them as canvases. She found multiples of coarse thick printed linen from the early 19th Century that formed what seemed to be a bed skirt. She bought four identical pieces and hand painted them, adding felt and liquid latex and a lot of hand written notes on shredded strips of white J Crew shirts. One scene portrayed the flowers printed on the linen crying, Niamh drew onto two shirt button strips crying blood red tears from eyes she cut from an old Kenzo scarf. You can see these strips above the fabric photographed and printed on acetate fall between another NEW YORK TIMES clipping that reads “End - a word is whited out here - That Hurts” The word whited out leaves a space for the bleeding tears to fall. The original drawing was titled “History of Violence”.

9 x 6 inches unframed