Philippe Le Miere is nothing short of a cultural icon alchemist. Possessing an enchanting talent for reshaping the ordinary and casting it through the kaleidoscope of his imagination, he assembles a mesmerising dreamscape within our popular visual lexicon.

Presenting Hello Mickey showcases the artist at his best: adept at playing a delightful game of cat and mouse with our visual expectations. A seamless mashup of Hello Kitty and Mickey Mouse, this bright yellow original pochoir print is unmissable and is a purr-fect choice for collectors of Pop and Postmodernist art.

This work is a pochoir (posh-waar) print. Emerging in late nineteenth-century Paris, pochoir printmaking sees an artist layer and hand-colour each component of their image. Unmechanised, this process gives each edition its own ‘aura’ while also requiring serious time and skill. Indeed, by the 1930s pochoirs had all but died under the rise of more efficient, mechanised printing techniques. 

It was master printmaker Jeffrey Makin who first linked Le Miere’s experimental process with the forgotten early twentieth-century practice. For Le Miere, working by hand represents a critical counterpoint to his subject matter. Where mainstream cinema is technologically immaculate, Le Miere’s work is fluid, textural and deliciously idiosyncratic. Layers of paint disturb a perfect surface, registering like man-made pixels. Once employed by Matisse and Picasso and revived by Le Miere, the pochoir unites art and the artisanal to give each work the feel of an original painting. 

Philippe LE MIERE (1975 - )
'Presenting Hello Mickey'
acrylic on paper
Edition of 50
Image Size: 34 x 25 cm
Paper Dimensions: 42 x 30 cm 
Frame Dimensions: 57 x 33 x 3 cm
Signed: Signed, titled and editioned in margin.
Comes with Letter of Provenance

Condition: Excellent.

(c) The Artist or Assignee