Abigail Lane

Abigail Lane has generously produced a limited edition on the occasion of The 90s: Art and Fashion, Tate Britain, 8 October 2026 – 14 February 2027.

The edition relates to Abigail Lane’s work, Bottom Wallpaper, 1992–7, which covers a gallery wall in the exhibition. It shows a repeat pattern of twenty bottom prints, which were created by the artist’s model sitting in an ink-pad chair and pressing her body onto the wallpaper. The installation subverts the idea of the unique autograph. Lane refers to it as ‘a kind of artistic mooning’. She described the process of wrapping a gallery with this intimate imagery as ‘both joke and protest’, bringing ‘a kind of defiance to the gallery walls’.

Each of the twenty bottom prints have been recreated as a high-quality digital pigment print and is repeated three times to make a varied edition of 60. The edition demonstrates the subtle variations in shape and ink-density of each impression. Adding a final witty touch, every print features a custom blind-emboss stamp in the lower right corner featuring the title, ARSE OVER TATE, a playful take on the common British phrase, ‘arse over tit’.

Each artwork is signed and numbered by the artist on the front. Prices of the artwork are liable to change. As a limited edition sells out, prices of the artwork are subject to increase and the price will be clearly indicated.

• Artist Abigail Lane
• Artwork ARSE OVER TATE
• Dimensions 70 x 50 cm
• Material Digital pigment print with embossed stamp on Somerset Enhanced Velvet 255gsm paper
• Edition Varied Limited Edition of 60, signed and numbered on front
• Date of work 1992-97/2026

Abigail Lane (b. 1967, Penzance, Cornwall) works primarily in sculpture and installation, while resisting confinement to any single medium. Materials she has worked with include video, sound, wax, print, concrete, crystals, ink, text, wallpaper, and found objects. Collaboration with other artists is also an important part of her practice. Although her work is often characterised by a dark or unsettling quality, this can obscure the humour that frequently lies beneath the surface.

She studied at Goldsmiths College, emerging in the early 1990s alongside artist friends including Mat Collishaw, Tracey Emin and Gary Hume. She became a key figure in the Young British Artists (YBA) movement and participated in the seminal 1988 Freeze exhibition, organised by Damien Hirst with fellow Goldsmiths students.

Abigail Lane has exhibited extensively across the UK and internationally. In addition to her work as an artist, she curates and co-ordinates SNAP, the contemporary visual art element to Suffolk’s Aldeburgh Festival. She lives and works in Suffolk, UK.

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