Matching Mother/Daughter Tattoos
France-Lise & Rita McGurn
Text by Neil Clements
The story was, me returning home from a trip to NY and showing her my new black star tattoo I got to match hers. She was busy cooking, as per, and turned to me with an eyebrow raised. In her kinda cutting sarcasm she said ‘matching mother daughter tattoos? Charming.’ She was half smiling and DEEPLY unimpressed.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Matching Mother/Daughter Tattoos by France-Lise McGurn and Rita McGurn at Margot Samel, 295 Church Street, New York, September 5 – October 14, 2023.
![Exhibition view of Matching Mother/Daughter Tattoos by France-Lise McGurn and Rita McGurn at Margot Samel, New York, September 5 – October 14, 2023. Photo Lance Brewer.]()
Rita McGurn (1940–2015, Glasgow, UK) was an artist and set designer who worked with figuration, painting, and textiles. France-Lise McGurn (b. 1983, Glasgow, UK) is an artist based in London, UK.
170 × 225 mm
48 pp
Offset printing
Stapled with a dustjacket
In English
Graphic design: Indrek Sirkel
Paper: Amber Graphic 70g
Typefaces: Century Expanded
Printed by Tallinn Book Printers
Edition of 400
Published by Lugemik & Margot Samel
ISBN 978-9916-9817-5-7
2023
France-Lise & Rita McGurn
Text by Neil Clements
The story was, me returning home from a trip to NY and showing her my new black star tattoo I got to match hers. She was busy cooking, as per, and turned to me with an eyebrow raised. In her kinda cutting sarcasm she said ‘matching mother daughter tattoos? Charming.’ She was half smiling and DEEPLY unimpressed.
— France-Lise McGurn
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Matching Mother/Daughter Tattoos by France-Lise McGurn and Rita McGurn at Margot Samel, 295 Church Street, New York, September 5 – October 14, 2023.
Rita McGurn (1940–2015, Glasgow, UK) was an artist and set designer who worked with figuration, painting, and textiles. France-Lise McGurn (b. 1983, Glasgow, UK) is an artist based in London, UK.
170 × 225 mm
48 pp
Offset printing
Stapled with a dustjacket
In English
Graphic design: Indrek Sirkel
Paper: Amber Graphic 70g
Typefaces: Century Expanded
Printed by Tallinn Book Printers
Edition of 400
Published by Lugemik & Margot Samel
ISBN 978-9916-9817-5-7
2023