Art UK has updated its cookies policy. By using this website you are agreeing to the use of cookies. To find out more read our updated Use of Cookies policy and our updated Privacy policy.

Dream and Refuge

© the artist. Image credit: White Cube (Theo Christelis). Courtesy of the Jerwood Collection

How you can use this image

This image can be used for non-commercial research or private study purposes, and other UK exceptions to copyright permitted to users based in the United Kingdom under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, as amended and revised. Any other type of use will need to be cleared with the rights holder(s).

Review the copyright credit lines that are located underneath the image, as these indicate who manages the copyright (©) within the artwork, and the photographic rights within the image.

The collection that owns the artwork may have more information on their own website about permitted uses and image licensing options.

Review our guidance pages which explain how you can reuse images, how to credit an image and how to find images in the public domain or with a Creative Commons licence available.

Notes

Add or edit a note on this artwork that only you can see. You can find notes again by going to the ‘Notes’ section of your account.

This work shows a woman asleep, wrapped in a printed cloth, and was created with the displaced and the homeless in mind. Rather than presenting the woman as an object of pity, however, Michael Armitage shows her as an individual with a rich interior world, represented by the imagery crowding the outside of the picture space. This dreamscape includes falling figures and the star found on the prow of a sailing dhow that bestows good luck on those who travel, while in the print of her wrap, we find the hornbill from a creation myth associated with motherhood, loss and creation.

This work was created at The Curwen Studio in London and is built up through seven separate coloured impressions. All proceeds from the sale will be donated to the non-profit organisation Gasworks/ Triangle Network to benefit three charities in Kenya: Beyond Zero, Ghetto Classics and The Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute (NCAI).
Title

Dream and Refuge

Date

2020

Medium

seven colour lithograph on Somerset warm white velvet 400gsm paper

Measurements

H 48.8 x W 23.5 cm

Accession number

JC263

Acquisition method

2020

Work type

Print

Signature/marks description

Signed and numbered

Tags

This artwork does not have any tags yet. You can help by tagging artworks on Tagger.

Jerwood Collection

England

View venue