Saturday, December 2, 2017

Seventies Gardens by Ivor Abrahams

Ivor Abrahams
Privacy Plots I (Brick Wall)
1970
screenprint and flock fibre
Tate Gallery

Ivor Abrahams
Privacy Plots II (Flower Garden)
1970
screenprint and flock fibre
Tate Gallery

Ivor Abrahams
Garden Suite I
1970
screenprint
Tate Gallery

Ivor Abrahams
Garden Suite IV
1970
screenprint
Tate Gallery

Ivor Abrahams
Garden Suite V
1970
screenprint
Tate Gallery

Ivor Abrahams
Suburban Shrub I (Dawn)
1972
lithograph
Tate Gallery

Ivor Abrahams
Sundial I (Summer)
1975
screenprint, felt, and mixed media
Tate Gallery

Ivor Abrahams
The Domain of Arnheim
from the series, E.A Poe - Tales and Poems

1976
screenprint
Tate Gallery

MOTHER GARDEN'S ROUND

The year was river-throated, with the stare of legend.
Then truth the whirlwind and Mother Garden. Death.
And now these stars, antlers, the masks of speech,
And the one ghost a glove in the middle of the floor.
                        Garden my green may grow.

If you were here tonight, my heart would rest,
Would rest on a support, happy thereon.
Something is dancing on leafdrift, dancing across the graves;
A child is watching while the world breaks open.
                        Garden my green may grow.

– Muriel Rukeyser (published in Poetry, April 1955)

Ivor Abrahams
Oxford Gardens V
1977
screenprint
Tate Gallery

Ivor Abrahams
Oxford Gardens VII
1977
screenprint
Tate Gallery

Ivor Abrahams
Hedges I
1977
screenprint
Tate Gallery

Ivor Abrahams
Hedges II
1977
screenprint
Tate Gallery

Ivor Abrahams
Funerary Urn (Monuments series)
1978
screenprint
Tate Gallery

Ivor Abrahams
The Sphinx (Monuments series)
1978
screenprint
Tate Gallery