More prints
my art, prints :: posted on September 5th, 2008
With an exhibition date looming rapidly it has been a push to complete the sequences that I have planned for the three Precipice groups of prints. Of course there is nothing finalised about the prints in terms of how they will work together, and that is what my mad slippery slope of frantic and determined printing has been about and will continue to be about for the next few weeks. It isn’t as much the show that is the aim as it is the opportunity to see how my last few years of work sit together and what needs to be adjusted and expanded or indeed contracted before next years submission. Of course it will be a vital time for my supervisor to nudge in the right direction and give the nod or the shake to specifics sets of work.
So hopefully by October the first, when I will have the Top Gallery in Salamanca Arts Centre for a month, there will be some more or less completed sequences and sets of prints that will hopefully have something to do with my Masters of Fine Arts! In my last moments before sleep could finally grasp me last night I came up with a sentence that I think may explain what I am working towards… ‘An exploration of landscape and physical appearance as a metaphoric description of significant repressed emotional experiences.’ but of course in the game of academia it will probably change and shift and warp finally settle into a block of text within the dusty pages of published paper.
September 5th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Congratulations on your upcoming exhibition, Linden! Best of energy and luck getting your work ready. I know what a struggle it is, including that artist statement.
September 6th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Hi Linden,
sounds like you are very busy indeed..will look forward to seeing your show. Did you use the ink you made with the ochre you have? Am interested in the sanguine tone in your image.
regards Andrew
September 7th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Thanks Marja-Leena - it is more of a show to work out my direction for completing the masters than for showing completed work, but it is essential at this point to get some input about whether it is working or not! A bit scary really… where have all the years gone?
September 7th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Hi Andrew - yes it is red ochre used as a lithograph ink and on the collograph. It is quite amazing the range of tones you can get with it - the print I am working on at the moment is a really vibrant red/orange! Still it is the uncertainty that I love, rather than predictability which perhaps flies in the face of printmaking?