Mary Katrantzou Those familiar with Mary Katrantzou’s way with print will know her subject matter is usually rich and rather baroque - think photographs of Meissen, Ming vases, Lalique crystal and interiors at Versailles, all digitally remastered and placed over her restrictive, corseted silhouette. This time, however, she elevated the everyday and worked the mundane into her digital tableaux. Cutlery, typewriter keys, coat hangers, chess pieces, tape measures, and guitars all got the Katrantzou treatment. Through her kaleidoscopic eyes, a simple domestic lawn and hedge reads as a maze, while yellow pencils are transformed into gloriously rich repeating pattern. Better still, real pencils were cut-up and embroidered, with their pink rubber tops, onto a skirt (by Lesage, no less), giving new meaning to the concept of a pencil skirt. Katrantzou had the front row literally on the edge of their seats, craning their necks to see what was coming next. Joy from Mary Queen of prints

Mary Katrantzou

Those familiar with Mary Katrantzou’s way with print will know her subject matter is usually rich and rather baroque - think photographs of Meissen, Ming vases, Lalique crystal and interiors at Versailles, all digitally remastered and placed over her restrictive, corseted silhouette. This time, however, she elevated the everyday and worked the mundane into her digital tableaux. Cutlery, typewriter keys, coat hangers, chess pieces, tape measures, and guitars all got the Katrantzou treatment. Through her kaleidoscopic eyes, a simple domestic lawn and hedge reads as a maze, while yellow pencils are transformed into gloriously rich repeating pattern. Better still, real pencils were cut-up and embroidered, with their pink rubber tops, onto a skirt (by Lesage, no less), giving new meaning to the concept of a pencil skirt. Katrantzou had the front row literally on the edge of their seats, craning their necks to see what was coming next. Joy from Mary Queen of prints

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