the 'a' word: October 2012

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

My first edition

I made my first edition for Limerick Printmakers a couple of weeks ago.

It's a screenprint homage (sic) to Alexa Chung featuring an image I drew of her from Elle magazine together with some of the accompanying text from the article.

I made about 36 prints and needed 25 for the edition. Just about managed to get 25 good ones which brings home to me the importance of a) good registration and b) careful printing.

They are for a box set called 20:20 which is in collaboration with Hot Bed Press in Salford, Manchester - my home city. I like that coincedence.

Inside I'm squeaking ...

I started this plate as an experiment after seeing the work of Akiko Taniguchi. It's been etched to black and then burnished back to give the round shapes which are meant to be silage bales. I got very excited whilst inking up the plate ...

so decided to try a roll-up and some a la poupee inking.

I'm still messing around with it and will post some images of prints later. Might use it for our editions project.

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

It is possibly time

I put some of my work up here instead of other peoples so here are some sketchbook pages:-

I'm focussing on details at the moment with the hope of trying to put these together in a series of etching, drypoints and woodblock print.

Sunday, October 14, 2012

P.S. WAY TOO MANY NIPPLES*

The visitor's comments board at the Lewis Glucksman is a brilliant idea. Lots of people have taken to expressing their thoughts graphically as well which is very appropriate.

I appropriated a few for this blog and thanks to all for the entertainment!

* in relation to Alice Maher's work - I think.

Thursday, October 11, 2012

I liked it so much I bought the catalogue

This was a great exhibition on at the Lewis Glucksman gallery in Cork city, featuring works by Matisse, Tacita Dean and William Kentridge.

Tacita Dean, Still Life, 16mm film projection

William Kentridge, Drawing for What Will Come (Fly II), charcoal on paper

Henri Michaux, Mouvements: Soixante-quatreDessins Un Poeme Une Postface
"An aquaintance of major twentieth century artists such as Paul Klee and Max Ernst and loosely linked to the Surrealist movement, Michaux experimented with drugs to push the boundaries of definition between writing and drawing. Mouvements consists of 64 drawings, some that appear like calligraphic characters, others that resemble a sequence of abstract figures or unidentified insects in motion"

Susan Morris, ERSD, View from Side, inkjet print on Hahnemuehle paper

Alice Maher, from The Music of Things, intaglio print

William Kentridge, detail

Thursday, October 4, 2012

A giant bobble hat in Limerick ...

also known as the Ormston House Summer Member's Show:-

For better photos and more information, see www.ormstonhouse.com

Akiko Taniguchi

More deliciousness from the Land of the Rising Sun.

Consuming Dawn; etching, lithograph, chine colle

Cold Front; etching, drypoint, mezzotint, chine colle

Mother Earth; etching, collagraph

"Taniguchi’s abstract visual language is based on her continuous research into forms found in the natural world. She looks at connections and forces of regeneration that exist in different environments. Taniguchi starts off with photographs of natural phenomena such as cloud formations, ice crystals, or cracks found in earth that have been parched by drought. Her hand-generated responses to these photographs heighten the rhythms, patterns and structures occurring in nature. To achieve this, she employs a variety of print-media including collagraph, etching, drypoint, mezzotint and chine collé. Her combination of processes creates complex three-dimensional surfaces of bold black forms, delicate calligraphic lines, and areas suffused with color."

See: http://www.davidsongalleries.com/artists/taniguchi/taniguchi.php