Laura Godfrey-Isaacs

About Laura Godfrey-Isaacs

At the time of her one-year Fellowship as Artist-in-Residence at Tate Liverpool in 1990, Laura Godfrey-Isaacs produced paintings the colour of pink flesh in which the surface of the oil paint is transformed into a kind of skin. In most of the early works of this type the gender of the surface is indicated by lips or nipples. Leah Kharibian has noted: "Looking at them is nothing less than a physical encounter, and through them Godfrey-Isaacs leaves the spectator with the pungent, unnameable sensation of being touched."

Fleshy Face [1990]
Oil on canvas, 77 x 77 cm
Donated by the artist 1992