Silkscreen on Khadi Hemp recycled paper
28 x 35cm
Edition of 30, numbered and accompanied by a certificate
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About the work
On the occasion of Hamad Butt: Apprehensions (4 Jun 2025 - 7 Sep 2025), Whitechapel Gallery will release a special pair of silkscreen prints, translated from two of Butt's drawings featured in the exhibition. Exclusively published by the Whitechapel Gallery, each numbered print is certified by the artist's family.
The editions take as their starting point the works on paper No Title - Transmission (Triffids) (c. 1990) and No Title - Crescent and Arches (c. 1990-92) and capture Butt's intricate use of allusion and repetition. The image of the triffid, appropriated from the cover of the 1961 Penguin paperback edition of John Wyndham's science fiction novel The Day of the Triffids, is employed as a figure of exotic contamination, mass death and generalised terror. 'The line of intent', a perforated path which suggests a constant, fatalistic trajectory, features in both works. Such symbols of contagion and disease sit alongside imagery which speaks to the artist's Muslim faith and interest in Islamic architecture, such the arch and crescent moon.
About the artist
Hamad Butt was born in Lahore, Pakistan in 1962 and moved to live in East London with his family in 1964. He studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths from 1987 to 1990 and coincided with the Young British Artists (YBA) generation, many of whom studied alongside him there. His earliest works include countless paintings and prints, which were shown in exhibitions around London and the UK from 1983-87, including at Brixton Gallery, Walker Art Gallery, South London Gallery and London Lesbian and Gay Centre. From the late 1980s, Butt developed unprecedented large-scale sculptural installations using toxic or dangerous materials. His later works were exhibited at John Hansard Gallery (Southampton); Tate Gallery (now Tate Britain); Whitechapel Gallery; Milch; Institute of Contemporary Arts (all London); Manchester Art Gallery; and elsewhere. He continued to make works on paper throughout this time. Butt died of AIDS- related complications in London in 1994, aged 32. A book on his work, Familiars, was published posthumously in 1996. His work is in the permanent collections of Tate and IMMA.
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