Nick Waplington: Untitled (Superman and Rabbit), 1989 (2023)

Phaidon and Artspace are proud to present a new limited edition photographic print by contemporary British photographer and artist Nick Waplington.

Untitled (Superman and Rabbit), 1989 (2023) is a limited-edition colour print taken from Waplington’s influential Living Room series, shot between 1986–1990 on the Broxtowe housing estate in Nottingham, England, where his grandfather lived. Set against a backdrop of economic downturn within Thatcher’s Britain, the project documented the daily lives of several families, focusing on unguarded moments of joy and human interaction.

Print Specification:

Print: C-Type print
Sheet size: 282 x 232 mm (11 x 9 in)
Image size: 257 x 170 mm (10 x 6 2/3 in)
Edition of 50 plus 12 APs
Signed and numbered by the artist

This limited edition print comes with a signed copy of Nick Waplington: Comprehensive, which is the most extensive survey to date on the prolific British photographer and artist and his body of work. Consolidating more than 600 illustrations across 400 pages, this outstanding volume offers an indelible glimpse into Waplington’s creative ethos, one steadfastly rooted within the complex and far-reaching aspects of our lived realities.

The print is housed within a tulip folder that is part of the endpapers of Nick Waplington: Comprehensive.

Book Specification:

Format: Hardback
Size: 290 × 250 mm (11 3/8 × 9 7/8 in)
Pages: 416 pp
Illustrations: 630 illustrations
Signed by the artist

Nick Waplington is a British artist living between London and New York. He has published extensively throughout his career, including Safety in Numbers (1995), Truth or Consequences (Phaidon, 2001), Working Process (2013), a collaboration with Alexander McQueen, Hackney Riviera (2019), and Anaglypta (2020). Waplington has exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, and in 2015, was the first living British artist to have a solo photographic exhibition in the main galleries of Tate Britain, London.