So after last week’s bombshell vote in favour of Brexit I feel slightly compelled to angle the project towards the issues that could potentially emerge from this for artists. This may be a knee jerk reaction on my part but […]
A blog documenting the progress of my project funded by an A-N Professional Development Bursary.
With each week into the residency at Kala art Institute, we became a part of the community of local and international printmakers working there. I have taken part in various artists’ residencies in the past ten years, and find the […]
As we both began to find a rhythm to the way of working together efficiently in Kala printmaking studio, prints began to emerge. Each of us seemed tentative initially, to make the first move. It was like we were creatively […]
The process of collaborating on this printmaking residency made me a little nervous. I have collaborated in the past with other artists on specific projects, but often I had already established a good working relationship with that person and our […]
Early days in the print studio at KALA were all about familiarising myself with the lovely staff members, observing how the studio works and getting to know some of the fellow artists in residence and printmakers that use KALA regularly […]
After the busy and productive time at SGCI in Portland, I took a long 17 hour train ride down the Oregon coast to Berkeley, California. It is here that the long established KALA Art Institute welcomes artists in residence from […]
During the first day of scheduled ‘Projects and Demonstrations’ at SGCI, myself and artist Sarah Jane Lawton, based at East London Printmakers, presented our collaborative print project ‘Movement & Gestures’. Our printmaking intervention presented an opportunity for participants to make […]
During the SGCI conference, some exceptional printmaking was exhibited in spaces and galleries around Portland. A personal highlight for me was seeing the outstanding experimental letterpress work of John Risseeuw, who received this years’ SGCI Printmaker Emeritus Award. His work, […]
Arriving in Portland, Oregon for the annual SGCI (Southern Graphics Council International) conference to beautiful sunshine and blue skies was unexpected, due to the city’s mostly reliable reputation of being amongst the most rainy places in the USA. Thanks to […]
A-N Travel Bursary funded research trip to SGCI (Southern Graphics Council International) FLUX printmaking conference in Portland, Oregon followed by a 2 month collaborative printmaking residency at KALA Art Institute, Berkeley, California.
Live print preparation (Photo: Skye Couzens) Lately I’ve been feeling on edge about the degree show, I don’t mean anxious, I mean literally thinking about the edge. Allow me to expand; both screens and prints have edges, edges which exist […]
My work explores what I describe as “Temporal Dissonance” at play within apparently declining or redundant sites, where time appears out of joint and the aura of the past overlaps with simultaneous but different temporal strands.
What do other members think about Giclée prints? Is it wrong to make a Giclée print of 25 then call it a limited edition for what is essentially a commercial inkjet process? Does it undermine the artists’ who use traditional […]
The renowned American artist is to donate one impression of all future prints created in his lifetime to Tate.