'Hand Maid' Exhibition, Hoxton Arches

At last night's private view for @wearesweetart exhibition 'Hand Maid' @HoxtonArches with my work 'Objects of Femininity'. Show is on until Wednesday 9 March and catalogue now online:
https://issuu.com/wearesweetart/docs/complete_final

Irregular landscapes

  Rhinds varnish screen printed onto steel. Printed with chine colle, and screen printed over the top.

Transgressing borders. Suggestion of a continuation of the landscape, interrupted by a burning lens. The lens/ filter blurs and distorts. Pixels become shading.

Laser Cut Experiments

Trying to create a reflective space through print using the printing plate, the print itself and a corresponding laser cut image. How do these three elements work together?
 

The luminescent red evokes a sense of light/time/space, reminiscent of the dark room. Draws attention to the photographic but also the biased nature of the lens (circle format), image reduced to its pixels, exposed...

Lasercut Experiments

I began to use laser cut in Parliament Island Variation #1

I removed aspects of human interference within the printed landscape mainly where pathways and people occurred. As the image had been manipulated and repeated, the shapes too created a pattern across the landscape. I laser cut corresponding shapes in wood to use for a relief print behind the screen printed image, to show these manmade occurrences as excavations. 

 

I experimented with these shapes further to create a varied edition of relief prints. Exploring pattern, directing 'white space', creating pathways, constructing space...

Possibilities...

Pathways

Relief print of lasercut perspex shapes

demarcated

Stone circles - seemingly arbitrary markers in space

The Earth as a surface to be mapped (Richard Long: Silbury Hill, 1971)