Mats
Sculpture - Reliefs - Cards
- Prints - Paintings -
Incorrect Attribution
'Heal’s Picture Gallery and Craftsman’s
Market present an exhibition of abstract design (Pictures, sculpture,
prints and table
linen) by thirteen artists in collaboration with Porthia Prints
Designers of fabrics repeatedly draw on the inventiveness of contemporary
printers and sculptors for their inspiration. This is bad if it perverts
or destroys the impact of the artists’ ideas on his public, but
it can be a good thing if it helps to break down the separateness of
the artist, enabling people to become familiar with his idioms by incorporating
them directly into their everyday lives.
Recently Porthia Prints invited a number of painters and sculptors,
who are not normally fabric designers, to solve a simple problem of
functional
design. The first results of this experiment form the present exhibition.
One part is composed of the table mats, screen printed in two colours
on to linen, from the designs of these artists. The other part of the
exhibition is of paintings, prints and sculptures by the same artists,
so that we can see how, in solving his problem of design, each painter
and sculptor has used again the particular personal idiom of his art.'
The
above is the introduction for an exhibition of work that took place
at Heal & Son
Limited in London opening Tuesday 1st March 1955. It included thirteen
place mats, featuring the designs of 13 artists, screen printed by
Porthia Prints
The catalogue for the show is included under exhibitions while
images
of
mats by the
13 artists
who took part in the original exhibition are shown here. They may not
be the 13 designs that were printed for the exhibition as other designs
exist,
but they do give
a pretty good impression of what was produced.
The four images after the first group are by
the artists who also submitted designs that were printed.
(Click on image to enlarge)
