Tanoa Sasraku: The Shape of Things to Come

Tanoa Sasraku

The Shape of Things to Come, 2026

Silkscreen print with heat sensitive ink onto Somerset Newsprint 300gsm

Size: 76 x 112cm

Edition of 30, signed and numbered

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About the edition

For Glasgow International 2026, Tanoa Sasraku has created a special silkscreen print in an edition of 30.

The edition features a life size reproduction of one of the artist’s camouflage pattern pieces, torn from the back of a British army flak jacket worn during desert warfare in the early 2000s.

The image relates to works featured in Sasraku’s GIasgow International exhibition, for which the artist created works using a tanning bed to emit light when printing camouflage patterns in UV ink onto newsprint.

Sasraku’s edition is printed onto Somerset Newsprint, a thick archival paper which evokes the tonal and textural qualities of newsprint. The silkscreen gradient, recreating the uneven light throw that the studio tanning bed emits is interactive, screen printed in a heat sensitive ink, which vanishes temporarily when exposed to hot air or human touch.

Bordering the jacket form is a perforation marked edge, evocative of the functionality and fragility of the pattern piece, as though it could be popped out of the paper sheet and stitched back into the body armour.

About the artist

Tanoa Sasraku (b. 1995, Plymouth, based in Glasgow) works across sculpture, printmaking, installation and filmmaking. Her work is rooted in the material and symbolic properties of land via landscapes, pigments and minerals, and informed by a personal relationship to textiles and pattern making. Sasraku is nominated for the 2026 Turner Prize. She studied at Goldsmiths University and the Royal Academy Schools and has held solo exhibitions at ICA London, Vardaxoglou and Peer in London, and at Spike Island in Bristol. Her moving-image works have been shown at the London Short Film Festival and Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival. Her work is held in several public collections, including the Arts Council Collection and the Government Art Collection.