Limited Edition Artist’s Print

Spring sometimes rises in me too (Script), 2021

Part of Soho Home’s Soho Editions, this limited-edition blind emboss print was created as a result of winning the Soho House Art Prize 2020/21. The blind embossed print depicts a handwritten libretto, which Hardie wrote and used as the screenplay in her film Spring sometimes rises in me too, also created for the Prize. The text-based print is made by pressing a hot metal plate into the paper and explores the 'marks' our mothers' love and voice leaves on 'us', as well as the marks we leave on others and the earth around us through our care (or lack of it).

'The title is taken from Zadie Smith's essay "Peonies" in her publication Intimations: Six Essays in which she discusses her initial resistance and submission to nature (as a woman). The artwork explores the protection that a corm gives the plant within and seedlings that germinate from it as a metaphor for motherhood - the potential of which a thirtysomething woman felt slowly slipping away from her over the summer of 2020.'

It was available to purchase from Soho Home and sold out within one month.

Hardie’s second limited edition print will be released by Soho Home in October 2022.

Spring sometimes rises in me too (Script), 2021, by Sarah Hardie, Edition of 40, Blind emboss on 300 gsm Somerset Satin Paper, 63cm x 83cm