About the edition
Available for pre-order, with delivery from week commencing Mon 16 November.
This limited-edition stone lithograph was created to coincide with France-Lise McGurn’s exhibition, The Charm Offensive, in DCA Galleries. The exhibition marks the artist’s most significant presentation in a UK institution to date, featuring paintings which spill from the canvas over the walls and floor alongside images and objects from McGurn’s studio.
The image shows a figure staring out from the page, a bare lightbulb hanging to the side. The print is reflective of motifs and images seen in McGurn’s exhibition, which sees a bare lightbulb hanging from the gallery ceiling and painted figures adorning canvases, furniture and the gallery walls. McGurn describes these figures as “part self-portrait, part observation, part memory”.
This print has been created in DCA Print Studio using the traditional process of stone lithography, with McGurn drawing and painting directly onto the smoothed surface of a slab of limestone. The unusual, pointed shape of the image comes from the stone having previously cracked in two – a unique outcome from this printmaking technique. With McGurn’s gestures and marks captured on the stone’s surface, the finished image was printed in a dark terracotta ink, mirroring the sepia paintings in The Charm Offensive.
| Year | 2026 |
| Edition of | 30 |
| Media | One colour stone lithograph on Hahnemühle Etching Natural 300gsm |
| Dimensions | Paper size: 48 x 56cm, print area: 22 x 30cm |
| Signature | Signed and numbered by artist |
About France-Lise McGurn
France-Lise McGurn was born 1983, in Glasgow. She lives and works between London and Glasgow. She studied for her BA at Duncan of Jordanstone, Dundee, in 2005, her MA in London at the Royal College of Art, London, and her MA in painting Exchange at Hunter College of Art, New York, in 2012.
McGurn predominantly works with painting to create layered installations that incorporate the gallery walls, floors and ceilings. Her calligraphic brushstrokes are made intuitively and swiftly, prioritising rhythm and movement which convey a relationship to themes of intimacy, ecstasy and memory.
France-Lise McGurn is represented by MASSIMODECARLO, London and The Modern Institute, Glasgow.
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