LIORAH TCHIPROUT
b. 1992, United KingdomWorking in painting, printmaking and sculpture, Tchiprout’s figurative works are both fantastical and intimate, informed by Yiddish literature and the artist’s Jewish culture. Tchiprout’s dolls are central to her practice, the basis of a self-referential realm from which the artist draws her subject matter. Building upon a wooden mannequin base, or covering her own metal wire armatures, Tchiprout’s figurines are based on herself, her closest friends, and fictional characters of literature and her own imagining, animated through modelling clay, handmade clothing, and human or animal hair. These dolls form the basis of her painterly compositions, groups of figures that bow their weighty heads, emotive in their slack physicality. As Tchiprout paints the dolls, they mediate her experience of painting from life. They establish a visual shorthand for the artist, a set of motifs and expressions that are distillations or signifiers of real human figures, yet also unreal in their upholstered lifelessness, abject in their departure from their subjects. In this way, the works span opposite concepts of real and imaginary, living and inanimate, forming a closed circuit of self-referential observation and world-building.
Having established her practice in printmaking, the artist’s transition to painting and sculpture also bears evidence of the mark-making of her earlier monoprints and etchings. In her painting and her sculpture, Tchiprout considers how light arranges itself across the roughly hewn surface of the dolls’ faces, shadows falling into the concave impressions of her finger-marks in much the same way that tactile gesture informs her monoprints.
Liorah Tchiprout (b. 1992, London) lives and works in London. She received her MA from Camberwell College of Art, London (2020), and earned her BA in Fine Art Printmaking at University of Brighton (2016). She is currently included in Rolling, Action... Paint!, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, **Norway, and later this year she will present Dead tired from the burden of a dream, a solo exhibition at Fernberger Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. In 2024 she presented her first solo exhibition at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, I love the flames, but not the embers. Previous solo exhibitions include Two Eyes Wide Open at the Edge of Dawn, Marlborough, London (2023); All Things are Kneeling, Brocket Gallery, London (2022); and Frontier at the Country of Night, Oxmarket Contemporary, Chichester (2022). Recent group exhibitions include Spectrum, MINT Gallery, Munich **(2025); The Darling of Reflection, Sid Motion Gallery, London (2024); Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2023), for which Tchiprout won the Sunny Dupree Family Award for a Woman Artist; Face to Face: A Celebration of Portraiture, Marlborough, London (2023); Painted Prints, trio show with Jimmy Merris and Gillian Ayres, Marlborough, London (2023); New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, London (2021); and The Ingram Prize Exhibition, Unit 1 Gallery, London (2021), amongst others. She has been shortlisted for the Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize (2023), selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries (2021), and shortlisted for the Ingram Prize (2021), The Signature Art Prize (2021), and the Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize (2020). Her collections include Government Art Collection, UK; Rachofsky Collection, Dallas, TX; Ruth Borchard Next Generation Collection, London; Soho House Art Collection; and Clifford Chance Collection, London.
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