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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
Robert Gordon University
"A 2 Z" - 26 individual vivachrome digital prints exhibited in several locations from 2008 to 2013.
The A 2 Z artwork (2.4 m x 3.6 m) consists of 26 individual vivachrome digital prints, produced in collaboration with Blyth, invited for exhibition at the 186th Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh 2012. The research generates and evaluates innovative strategies for new understanding of collaborative working. These pose questions surrounding sole authorial control by constructing a visual dialogic interchange between the two artists (Agnew and Blyth). Collaboration initially introduces a disruptive element that catalyses a process of adjustment, learning and resolution. Agnew initiated this process and acted as curator, working incrementally towards the final outcome (Edinburgh 2012).
http://www.royalscottishacademy.org/pages/exhibition_frame.asp?id=296
http://www.royalscottishacademy.org/pages/exhibition_frame.asp?id=303
In contradistinction to renowned artistic collaborations (e.g. Gert & Uwe Tobias), this research into the collaborative process, has necessitated the development of explicit visual and storytelling methodologies. The work celebrates two distinctive practitioners who normally work individually creating a complementary, collaborative relationship for the development of new work. The development work is generated through collage and finished output as a print, compressing and consolidating the complex layers into a single plane and a composite whole.
By drawing on found imagery and situating this in new, unexpected constructions, this research intends to disrupt habitual readings of these found elements through transformative processes afforded by the print making process. The creative process draws on existing print ephemera from a wide range of sources [books, journals, internet, newspapers, reproductions, texts, magazines, photographs, advertising], recycling these in resolved works that draw upon the histories of print matter but are paradoxically articulated through 21st century digital methodologies.
The work has also been exhibited at The Foyer, Aberdeen [invited] 2008/09 with publication sponsored by JP Kenny Ltd Aberdeen (6.5K) and Wrexham’s Oriel Print International Exhibition [selected] 2013.
http://thisproject.co.uk/print-intrnational-2013/
https://www.facebook.com/WrexhamPrintInternational
