What a Bitch

Donald Urquhart (1963 - )

Screenprint on Somerset paper

2006

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  • About the work
    This print combines two apparently conflicting statements. ‘Say it with flowers’ would normally suggest a person giving a bunch of flowers either as an apology or as a mark of affection. ‘What a bitch’ on the other hand is an overtly derogatory comment. What makes Donald Urquhart’s screenprint amusing is that the block capital letters of the second, insulting, remark are in fact filled with drawings of small flowers. ‘What a bitch’ is literally said in flowers.
  • About the artist
    Writer, performer and artist Donald Urquhart was born in 1963 in Dumfries, Scotland. He moved to London in 1984 and started collaborating with performance artist and fashion designer Leigh Bowery. Urquhart embraced Bowery’s drag-performance world and set up the underground club night The Beautiful Bend, which he ran throughout the 1990s. Interest in the imagery and artwork for the flyers, illustrated booklets, and posters for this club has resulted in a number of exhibitions of Urquhart’s darkly humorous pen and ink drawings. As an artist, Urquhart has exhibited widely with work included in group exhibitions such as The Black Album, at Interim Art, London (2004), Publish & Be Damned, Cubitt, London (2004) and I Still Believe in Miracles, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2005). He was nominated for Becks Futures prize in 2005.
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    Title
    What a Bitch
    Edition
    45/70
    Date
    2006
    Medium
    Screenprint on Somerset paper
    Dimensions
    height: 42.00 cm, width: 29.70 cm
    Acquisition
    Purchased from Studio Voltaire, June 2007
    Inscription
    verso, lr: 45/70 Donald / Urquhart
    Provenance
    Studio Voltaire, London
    GAC number
    18126/7