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Impressit

This work expanded on previous research into the use of the computer as a drawing tool, exploring ideas of the temporary and the barriers between comedy and tragedy. The research culminatied in large-scale digital Prints onto Adhesive Vinyl that were placed straight onto the wall and Digital Drawings that were combined with Woodcut Printing and mounted on to Perspex. The adhesive vinyl images are drawn through a combination of the computer programmes Photoshop and Illustrator, cross-breeding cartoon and religious imagery to create new hybrid iconic motifs. By being placed straight onto the wall and having a temporary life-span, these works set out to question the established nature of printmaking (as works on fine art paper and housed in a frame behind glass) and push the accepted currency of printmaking.

I was invited to give a talk about my work and its relationship to Printmaking as part of the ‘Talking Prints’ series at the Art Lab run by staff from UCLAN in Preston in 2011. Following this talk I was invited to exhibit within the exhibition ‘Impressit: The Art of Printmaking’ at the Harris Museum in Preston, curated by Pete Clarke, Head of Fine Art at UCLAN. The exhibition explored varying approaches to contemporary printmaking and included a selection of national and internationally renowned printmakers: Roohi Ahmed (Pakistan), Gerry Baptist, Anne Desmet, Georg Gartz (Germany), Jason Hicklin, Wuon-Gean Ho, Katherine Jones, Jadranka Njegovan (Holland), Oran O’Reilly, Bren Unwin, Pete Clarke, Tracy Hill, Magda Stawarska Beavan. There was an extensive schedule of artists talks and related printmaking workshops that ran concurrently with the exhibition, offering the public the opportunity to understand the breadth of contemporary printmaking.