Dimensions: image: 390 x 550 mm
Copyright: © Michael Landy | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Curator: The delicacy here is striking. It's Michael Landy's "Creeping Buttercup," held here in the Tate Collections. Editor: It does have a ghostly elegance. The thin lines, almost like a scientific illustration, but so much more melancholic. Curator: Landy's work often grapples with destruction and reclamation, so this piece, isolated against the white background, feels almost like a memorial. Each fragile line perfectly rendering the plant. Editor: And those roots, so exposed! It speaks to a vulnerability, doesn't it? The way the plant reaches out, almost searching. Curator: Perhaps a reminder of nature's tenacity, even in the face of adversity? It's the creeping buttercup, after all, hardy and resilient. Editor: It's quite beautiful actually, this meticulous capturing of something so small, and yet so full of implied strength. I almost missed the beauty in it.
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Creeping Buttercup is one of a series of etchings in Landy’s portfolio Nourishment. The portfolio was published by Paragon Press in an edition of thirty-seven plus six artist’s proofs; the set owned by Tate is number nine in the series. These prints were first exhibited at Maureen Paley Interim Art, London between December 2002 and January 2003 alongside several related etchings produced in an edition of six which were sold individually.
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