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The Secret

Sale price£500.00 GBP
Impression:
Exhibited:
  • 250th Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts (RA), London
    [12 June 2018 - 19 August 2018]
Licensed:
  • July, 2020 Calendar, Royal Academy of Arts (RA)
  • Plastic-Negative Greetings Cards, Zero Plastic [2021-Current]
Metadata:
  • Medium: Drypoint and watercolour
  • Support: Somerset Textured White 300gsm handmade cotton paper
  • Image Size (Matrix Size): 150 × 125mm
  • Paper Size (Support Size): 285 × 255mm
  • Edition: 100
  • Numbered AP: 10
  • Published: 2018
Context

Published in 2018 and selling out at that year's RA Summer Exhibition - the 250th coordinated by Grayson Perry CBE RA, these private little songbirds featured in the 2020 RA Calendar and then later became one of The World's First Plastic-Negative Greetings Cards in December 2021. Thanks to Richard's partnership with the eco start-up Zero Plastic.

The reverse of the cards read:

The warbling white-eye (Zosterops japonicus), previously known by the English name "Japanese white-eye", were taxonomically combined in 2018 with the "mountain white-eye", as they were discovered to be the same species. Known in Japan as 'mejiro' (メジロ, 目白), also meaning "white-eye", one can only imagine what these two small, active, noisy songbirds make of this.
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