Lisson Gallery presents a survey of Susan Hiller's Rough Seas works. After moving to the UK in the 1960s, the US-born artist came across numerous series of vintage postcards in stores across seaside towns. Her first work to make use of these collections was the multi-panel installation, Dedicated to the Unknown Artists (1972–1976), one of the best-known conceptual works of the period. Hiller remarked on the creative products of anonymous workers–typically women–employed to add effects and painted details. Hiller further explored the subject by hand-colouring enlarged postcard imagery, later using Photoshop and other digital techniques, to add dazzling painterly effects, which the artist continued into her final years.

Press release courtesy Lisson Gallery.