Jordan (Face No. 3)

JOHN DOVE AND MOLLY WHITE
Jordan (Face No. 3)
signed, titled and dated on the verso
screen-print on hand-made rag paper, made from recycled T-shirts
29 15/16 × 22 inches (76 × 56 cm)
From the edition of 100, plus one artist's proof
Executed in 2008.

Jordan — the Seditionaries shopgirl whose face became one of the visual keys to Westwood and McLaren's 430 King's Road moment — as the third in Dove and White's Face series, first introduced at Kitsch-22, 22 Woodstock Street, London in 1976–77 alongside Bowie (Face No. 1), Siouxsie (No. 2) and Johnny Rotten. The Face series was conceived around the idea of urban tribal make-up: face-paint printed separately from the bleached portrait, as an abstract pattern read as the new face-paint of the tribes of late-1970s London.

The 2008 print re-stages the original portrait at gallery scale on hand-made rag paper produced from recycled T-shirts — a literal material loop running from the artists' Wonder Workshop and Kitsch-22 T-shirt practice of the 1970s into their late-period printmaking. The paper itself is the artists' earlier work, returned to its raw material and re-pressed as the support for the print of one of the figures who wore those original designs on the King's Road.