The Nice biscuit — those hard, oblong coconut-flavoured biscuits with the word NICE embossed on the top in the same font it's always been in — is one of those...
The Nice biscuit — those hard, oblong coconut-flavoured biscuits with the word NICE embossed on the top in the same font it's always been in — is one of those objects that sits at the intersection of the unremarkable and the beloved. Gill Sheraton's print takes the Nice as its inspiration and does what she does best: the joke is visible in the title from across the room, the craft reveals itself on closer inspection.
The emerald green of the 270gsm paper gives the piece its particular warmth, and the gold foil hand-finishing adds a material generosity that the biscuit itself emphatically does not have. Printed on 270gsm Emerald Green paper, hand-finished with gold foil by the artist at Print Club London's Hackney studios. Signed. £110.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Gill Sheraton
Gill Sheraton is a London-based designer and printmaker who graduated with a BA Honours in Graphic Design in 2012 and has since worked at award-winning creative agencies in London and Bangkok. Her screen prints take the small pleasures of food and drink — hot dogs, sauce bottles, martinis, jelly, ice cream, the classic Nice biscuit — and give them the graphic attention they’ve been quietly deserving. She prints by hand at Print Club London’s Hackney and Dalston studios, hand-finishing most pieces with gold or silver foil. The combination of bold flat colour, typographic wit and genuine craft running through the work is the direct product of that design-to-printmaker trajectory.