Coloursoup

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Artwork Details

About the artwork

These prints investigate the relationship between human figures and the spaces they inhabit. They are about subjectivity and a person's relationship to external matter and a shared environment. How do we inhabit space? How do our bodies, ourselves, physically interact with inanimate things and constructed environments? Oscillating between traditional figurative studies of the human form and something more abstract, graphic and fantastic they disrupt one's expectations and in lacking narrative construct a space for the invention of meaning and mythology. Fabric becomes a landscape to traverse, concrete becomes the darkness of night, things that are close recede, scale is destabilised. As a coherent visual reading of space disintegrates imagination takes over. Where are these people? Who are they? And what are they doing? This series of prints has been made using a technique known as the reduction method whereby a plate, in this case of vinyl, is cut and printed in several stages rendering different layers of colour. The surface area of the plate is reduced in each subsequent printing. This way of working effectively destroys the vinyl plate ensuring that only a certain number of prints can be made. Each of the prints has been pulled by hand, by burnishing with a wooden spoon. This is a very labour intensive process but also a very intimate and authentic one. Every print made is unique and has a subtlety of colour that can only be obtained by working in such a direct and tactile way, with one’s hands. Please note that this print is sold mounted but without frame.

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