NO OIL PAINTING Make-Up Bag

Celebrating our 30th anniversary in 2024, Studio Voltaire has invited many major artists to revisit and reimagine some of their previous House of Voltaire releases for our “Greatest Hits”. Matthew Higgs has crafted a luxury Italian leather pouch for essentials, inspired by a 2006 screen print edition. Known for his sardonic use of text and found items, Higgs decontextualised a clichéd insult for his original edition framing it within the canon of art criticism, here the same phrase is parsed back into practical usage as a cosmetics bag, which fits a phone.