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“Temporal Dissonance” – Printmaking, video, installation.

The festival: to showcase, through individual solo exhibitions, innovative work by select practitioners culminating in a collaborative endeavour resulting in inerdisciplinary skills transfer; present the prevailing trends within their respective printmaking practices; renewed dialogue within the evolving discourse of printmaking. Peer review, selection and invitation by Knut Willich, Chairperson Kloster-Bentlage Contemporary Arts Association.

My exhibition: comprised 39 works, demonstrating the evolution of print language from traditional etching to projected imagery - the transfer of image from one matrix to another, simultaneously acting like a narative – telling a story of the evolution/dissolution of traditions over time. The work presented my research of the anachronistic. Focusing my attention on the fading legacy of traditional rural irish life, farming, customs and traditions; harnessing the anachronisitic processes of traditional printmaking as well as innovative, hybrid techniques to add layers of meaning and signifiance to my explorations into time, place, history, memory, traditions etc. that are temporally dissonant. Both my subject and how I communicate it, can be considered temporally or aesthetically dissonant, leaving room for reinterpreation in the present.

I rooted my methodological approach in the evolution of print practice from the flat 2-dimensional surface to projected imagery and installation. The work and how it was curated detailed the trajectory of my methodology, like a narative, giving the audience an insight into how printmaking has shifted ocer time, through harnessing and augmenting other media, material, and potentially opposing, temporally incongruent technologies etc.

The research was reflexive in an introspective and methodological way resulting in an interative process of making - where similar ideas were manifested and communictaed in different ways. The viewer was presented with new and alternative ways of conveaning meaning – through collage, 3D printing, projection and installation, resulting in a more holistic experience and understanding of print practice today.