MARY McCARTNEY

Henzel Studio is honored to have collaborated with photographer Mary McCartney on a limited-edition collection of art rugs and accompanying art pillows, encompassing highlights from McCartney’s archive selected in collaboration with the artist.

For two decades, McCartney has explored the female gaze and abroad range of subjects, examining nuanced aspects of identity, vulnerability and femininity through her lens. Whether the subjects are world-famous or unknown, familiar to her or not, she has used the camera to gain a deeper understanding of their true selves. Authenticity and truthfulness are key denominators in McCartney’s search of the naturally inspiring and beautiful in humanity and nature, using the camera to develop and discover the world.

Mary McCartney, portrait. Courtesy of the artist.

Titled FREEDOM, the collection features six rugs that document highlights of Mary McCartney’s career, including photographs depicting her horse Alejandro, from her book, The White Horse, her sister Stella stepping out of a car and a dancer from a project capturing dancers backstage at the Royal Ballet in London.

These rugs mark Henzel Studio’s introduction of chromatic print on velour as technique, ensuring the finest quality available for photographic reproduction. A seventh hand-knotted rug design appropriates a photograph of an English Rose, which has been adapted as a design informed both by the frame of the photographic lens and the natural shape and texture of the rose petals. Accompanying the rugs is a capsule of decorative art pillows made from printed velvet. The featured photographs capture awe and beauty in the simple moments where even the mundane can reveal its eternal nature. The adapted photographs depict interactions with a frog, a snake, as well as close-ups of chest displaying cowboy-themed bedazzlement and Jenny Holzer’s iconic T-shirt featuring the text “Men Don’t Protect You Anymore”.

Image: MARY McCARTNEY, Let Me Out, USA, 1995
Edition of 10 + 1 AP
Numbered
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity
Signed by the artist (CoA)
150 x 230 cm (59 x 90.5 ins) / Custom size available

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For two decades, McCartney has explored the female gaze and a broad range of subjects, examining nuanced aspects of identity, vulnerability and femininity through her lens. Whether the subjects are world-famous or unknown, familiar to her or not, she has uesd the camera to gain a deeper understanding of their true selves. Authenticity and truthfulness are key denominators in McCartney’s search of the naturally inspiring and beautiful in humanity and nature, using the camera to develop and discover the world.

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MARY McCARTNEY, ENGLISH ROSE, LONDON, 2019 / 2021

MARY McCARTNEY, ENGLISH ROSE, LONDON, 2019 / 2021

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Edition of 5 + 1 AP
Numbered
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity
Signed by the artist (CoA)
Hand Knotted
Free-form, High & low cut
Wool, Nettle & Silk
230 x 300 cm (90 x 118 ins)
Custom size upon request

”Authenticity and truthfulness are key denominators in McCartney’s search of the naturally inspiring and beautiful in humanity and nature.”

- Joakim Andreasson, Curator, Henzel Studio Collaborations

What sets Mary’s work apart from her contemporaries is a raw and effortless dedication to immerse herself into the worlds of her subjects, which once captured by her intuitive eye find a way to represent and project the truthfulness of both subject and artist, reflecting an individual as opposed to style. Rather than create a composition, she seeks the composition within, portraying the character of the subject rather than defining it.

Installation view: MARY McCARTNEY, English Rose, London, 2019 / 2021 and Hugging, photograph by MARY McCARTNEY

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MARY McCARTNEY
Dance, Paris, 2005
Edition of 10 + 1 AP
Numbered
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity
Signed by the artist (CoA)
Dye-injected velour
225 x 150 cm (88.5 x 59 ins)
Custom size available

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Installation view: MARY McCARTNEY, Dancer in Blue, London, 2013, MARY McCARTNEY, Dance, Paris, 1995, MARY McCARTNEY, Men Don't Protect You Anymore, London, 2004, MARY McCARTNEY, Rattlesnake, Arizona, 1994

McCartney’s practice was ignited by her mother Linda’s career as a world-renowned photographer and her intimate photographic recording of family life. Her work has been shown internationally and has appeared in the National Portrait Gallery and the V&A in recent years.

MARY McCARTNEY
Dancer in Blue, London, 2013
Edition of 10 + 1 AP
Numbered
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity
Signed by the artist (CoA)
Dye-injected velour
155 x 230 cm (61 x 90.5 ins)
Custom size available

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MARY McCARTNEY
Believe, Nashville, 2004
Edition of 10 + 1 AP
Numbered
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity
Signed by the artist (CoA)
Dye-injected velour
150 x 205 cm (59 x 81 ins)
Custom size available

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MARY McCARTNEY
The White Horse, Sussex, 2016
Edition of 10 + 1 AP
Numbered
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity
Signed by the artist (CoA)
Dye-injected velour
190 x 135 cm (75 x 53 ins)
Custom size available

MARY McCARTNEY, Daisy Roots, 2003
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MARY McCARTNEY, Gently Holding Frog, Scotland, 1995
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MARY McCARTNEY, Men Don’t Protect You Anymore, London, 2004
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MARY McCARTNEY, Rattlesnake, Arizona, 1994
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Selected exhibitions / Public collections: Victoria & Albert Museum, London; National History Museum, London; National Portrait Gallery, London; Gagosian, New York