Well here it is. Work for the final series of prints for the exhibition. . . . Well the stencils anyway, which ever way you look at it. They are the work, though not the works. Yes poor puns. Sorry can’t help myself, as all is going well and also yesterday someone wrote about my work. Tamzyn Jackson wrote a Featured Artist critique about the work I produced for Pop My Mind.
I am not sure if anyone is reading this as AN don’t seem to give analytics for blogs, so if there are no comments, you don’t really know. But if you are reading this check out Pop My Mind, it’s great.
So the News Stand series is done for the exhibition, but the work is not done for the project. I still have a stack of Simulacrum and Reportage prints on the drying rack, and a set I took home to work on. The project continues.
Yesterday, I had long discussions with two students. Rachel has been working on large scale screen prints using a variety of techniques. Her work has turned out really well with nice contrasts in the mark making. It is interesting analysing and debating methods.
I had a bit of a surprise as well, not that Danny came in and chatted for while, but that, what he said was a bit out of the blue. He is in the graphics/illustration course, and said the motif in his print was for an album cover design, for Throbbing Gristle. They were an eighties band, electronic stuff. I had thought that they would have plummeted into obscurity, but no, an 18 year old student knows about them and works up a new design. Yes, that sounds a bit old for me to make that statement but perhaps obscurity is now a thing of the past. Ha, before moving on, yes, that was an odd statement too. Ha. But what is interesting, is that material is still around, even when it doesn’t get on to those pop hits albums that constantly bring the same old tracks. Things are perhaps not locked in time, as much as I had thought. That’s interesting too.
And by the way Danny was combining painting and printmaking, not in ways I had been thinking about, but in a very interesting way that seemed to work for the idea.
Enough.
