LARS BIRK
Lars Birk

MA Chelsea Lars Birk was born and grew up in Denmark, now living and working between Copenhagen and London. He studied MA Fine Art at Chelsea, and recently presented a comprehensive solo exhibition at the Royal Danish Embassy in London. Lars focuses his practice on painting. He is interested in energy, conciousness and awareness and how they relate to form and solid matter. In his own words, “a magical flow runs through everything. The surface of things is not the truth of things. The real magic is in the energy that everything is made of...inside the atoms of rocks, humans, birds...a spirtual energy that connects everything. It is the space that Einstein points to, when he says that empty space isn’t empty.” Lars’ print for the Jealous prize is an 9 colour screenprint on Saunders Waterford Paper, the central image, a book, seems to float in the space. Words, repeated and inverted spill from its pages. The book, with it’s evocative title ‘Le Mystere’ becomes a metaphor, for the collection of ideas, their dissemination and the energy of words and ideas. Lars’ Jealous Prize print edition is now held in the Victoria & Albert Museum Permanent Print Collection.

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  • Le Mystere

    LARS BIRK
    Le Mystere

    LARS BIRK
    Le Mystere

“One of the important things that I think Paul and I have in common is we both have a sense of putting something back into the system that gave so much to us, and I think we share that view. I would say that the print is kind of a reflection of that association where we’re putting something back into the world.” - Sir Michael Craig-Martin

Umbrella by Sir Michael Craig-Martin

Umbrella is produced as a four-colour
screenprint with a varnish overlay on 410gsm Somerset Tub Sized Radiant White
paper. 

Each work measures 50 × 50cm and is signed and editioned by the artist, with a certificate of authenticity.

Umbrella is available from Tuesday 10
November 2026 at £1,300 per print or £3,500 for the complete set of three.

Published and printed in the Jealous Print Studio.

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