Joyce Gunn Cairns
Joyce Gunn Cairns, Self Portrait as Faustus
About this artwork
Joyce Gunn Cairns’s paintings and drawings are intensely personal, exploring her own emotional and physical history and using her own body as a point of departure. The artist has said of this portrait: ‘I was reading Goethe’s Faust at the time and the etching is possibly a hybrid of Faust’s ambition allied to callousness, and Gretchen’s grief and fear when she is abandoned by Faust.’
Updated before 2020
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artist:Joyce Gunn Cairns (born 1948) Scottish
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title:Joyce Gunn Cairns, Self Portrait as Faustus
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date created:2000
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materials:Etching
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measurements:25.00 x 18.00 cm
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credit line:Purchased 2018
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accession number:PGE 88
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Joyce Gunn Cairns
Joyce Gunn Cairns
Joyce Gunn Cairns was born in Bonnyrigg near Edinburgh, and has been based in the capital since 1977. After taking a degree in German and Comparative Religion, she studied at Edinburgh College of Art. She began to exhibit in the late 1980s. Her paintings and drawings are intensely personal,...