There is Nothing I can Do with this Desire

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Liorah Tchiprout explores themes of belonging, girlhood and the theatrical through her work. This body of work draws from the Modicut theatre of 1920s Yiddish New York where puppets, which the artist observes were ‘traditionally seen as a gentile medium’, were infused with folk tales and political satire. Tchirpout began making her own puppets and used them as models in her paintings and drawings as ways to explore ‘life’s big ideas’. She says ‘ I like the way that working from puppets I have made is simultaneously drawing from my head and drawing from life’.

Liorah Tchiprout was born in London. She studied printmaking at the University of Brighton, with some time as an exchange student at the Bezalel School of Art and Design in Jerusalem. She went on to do a MA in Print from Camberwell College of Arts in 2020. Exhibitions of her work include The Top 100 at The Department Store; Life of Venus at The Tub; and Bigger Pleasures, all in London in 2021. She also showed work at the 2019–20 Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair in London and won the Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize in 2019.

Places

Subjects

Materials & Techniques

board, paint, oil, oil paint, oil painting

Artist

Liorah Tchiprout (1992 - )

Title

There is Nothing I can Do with this Desire

Date

2021

Medium

oil on board

Dimensions

height: 30.0 cm; width: 24.0 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from New Contemporaries, March 2022

Provenance

New Contemporaries; from whom purchased UK Government Art Collection, 11 March 2022

GAC number

19042