Rolled Paintings

Began in 2009 by SMW after a multi-year hiatus from painting. Large-scale paper allowed for the painting process to become a performative actions that exorcised negative thoughts.

*The earliest archived objects in the catalog.


Listings connecting to the grouping of work “Rolled Paintings” (21)



Image of Studio object

  • Catalog No.
  • 00001-2014-TwRp-MeetYourOwnNeeds
  • Title
  • Meet Your Own Needs
  • Dimensions
  • 150 x 70
  • Materials
  • Acrylic on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical

  • Reflection Notes

Performative actions to exorcise negative thoughts.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00012-2016-TwRp-HasntAgedWell
  • Title
  • Hasn't Aged Well
  • Dimensions
  • 150 x 55
  • Materials
  • Acrylic on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical

  • Reflection Notes

Rijksakademie Internal Open Studios – 07.09.20. “Artists over 70 with storages all over the world. Their children are worried, they don’t even know what’s in there. This is really a problem with artists’ families normal.” – Anon. “We [artists] have no saying, it’s up to them. Now I have a core group of people that will take care of them [my art pieces].” – SMW.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00002-2009-TwRp-GodIsEenVrouw
  • Title
  • God is een Vrouw
  • Dimensions
  • 241 x 100
  • Materials
  • Acrylic on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical

  • Technical Notes

Returned gift from Tracey Emin. First painting made after many years.


  • Reflection Notes

“I can’t pronounce ‘femininity’ with a straight face. Woman made for woman? the wonder to the man, the rib to the cage, the noxious to the vindicate. Pray to the goddess.” – AC.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00013-2014-TwRp-ProtestPainting
  • Title
  • Protest Painting (Made in a Trance)
  • Dimensions
  • 100 x 70
  • Materials
  • Acrylic on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical

  • Reflection Notes

GSA inventorying session – 10.09.20. “Madness you respect.” – AC.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00003-2009-TwRp-Fame
  • Title
  • Fame
  • Dimensions
  • 238 x 100
  • Materials
  • Acrylic on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00014-2012-TwRp-MyPersonalitysMyWork
  • Title
  • My Personality's My Work
  • Dimensions
  • 150 x 66
  • Materials
  • Acrylic on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00004-2009-TwRp-ArtistPaintsArtistErykahBadu
  • Title
  • Artist Paints Artist: Erykah Badu
  • Dimensions
  • 238 x 100
  • Materials
  • Acrylic on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00015-2010-TwRp-LoveIsTimeless
  • Title
  • Love is Timeless
  • Dimensions
  • 150 x 70
  • Materials
  • Acrylic on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical

  • Reflection Notes

SMW & AC inventorying session – 08.10.20. “Maybe it doesn’t take 20 years to understand the work, as Pina Montano says, but even to face the work.” – SMW. “I’m making an executive decision that the archive will have inconsistencies.” – SMW. “How do you look at work that you made 20 years ago and don’t like or feel comfortable with? – AC. “Or relate to […] I don’t see the point in destroying things. They had a function.” – SMW. “It took me 10 years to make, my whole teenage years (‘I’m Proud of Myself’ sculpture), and I didn’t know I was making it. I was living. The accumulation is something I appreciate.” – SMW.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00005-2009-TwRp-PenisPain
  • Title
  • Penis Pain
  • Dimensions
  • 203 x 100
  • Materials
  • Acrylic on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00016-2011-TwRp-PleaseStupid
  • Title
  • Please Stupid
  • Dimensions
  • 150 x 62
  • Materials
  • Acrylic on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical

  • Reflection Notes

GSA meeting – 08.02.21. “[...] names that didn’t make it into telling stories.” – MH.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00006-2016-TwRp-AtypicalShabbyChic
  • Title
  • Atypical/Shabby Chic
  • Dimensions
  • 150 x 68
  • Materials
  • Acrylic on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical

  • Reflection Notes

SMW & AC inventorying session – 24.09.20. “Staring at the wall is work.” – SMW. “Thinking is artistic labour.” – AC.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00017-2014-TwRp-ToBeDesiredByMales
  • Title
  • To Be Desired by Males
  • Dimensions
  • 100 x 70
  • Materials
  • Acrylic on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical

  • Reflection Notes

Rijksakademie Internal Open Studios – 07.09.20. “[…] to archive in order to get viewers into this headspace. anon: The longer you are an artist, the more important it becomes that you cannot remember everything.” – SMW. “Is that desirable, or is it a threat? Maybe both?” – AC.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00007-c2009-TwRp-SadAndDeep
  • Title
  • Sad and Deep
  • Dimensions
  • 150 x 79
  • Materials
  • Acrylic on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical

  • Technical Notes

Early rolled paintings always text with a frame/edge.


  • Reflection Notes

Rijksakademie Internal Open Studios – 07.09.20. “Our archiving is sharing, it’s like opening up a heart.” – SMW.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00018-2011-TwRp-NotTraceyEminVoorDeZoveelste…
  • Title
  • Not Tracey Emin voor de zoveelste keer
  • Dimensions
  • 150 x 68.5
  • Materials
  • Acrylic on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00008-2011-TwRp-DisadvantageIsAnIntellectual…
  • Title
  • Disadvantage is an Intellectual Position
  • Dimensions
  • 150 x 69
  • Materials
  • Acrylic on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical

  • Technical Notes

In response to the Linda Nochlin 1971 essay ‘Why are there no great women artists’.


  • Reflection Notes

Email exchange – 22.09.20. “I am in such an art world bubble sometimes, even feminist art world bubble, that it is still fairly new and challenging to answer questions about my positioning in the general society at large in a materialist feminist sense.” – SMW.

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