Exhibition

YCN Student Awards- Fedrigoni Brief

I don't think i put these on here after i finished it, which was just over 2 months ago. Put into practice my interest in materials and processes... although it wouldn't be a bad thing if i didn't screenprint for a while. OH that was a stressful day.

Close Up Etchings

that i made for my outcome 2 wall piece.

I was etching for about 7 hours to get these

4 plates done last week and i'm really

happy with how they came out.

Space is often seen as scientific, whereas place is personal. So collection is based around the idea of ‘Science of Memory’ highlights areas of the brain that deal with memory which I made by etching and relief printing which I liked as the process of printmaking gives an aged quality without being a pastiche.

"The Science of Memory'

Outcome 2 is a physical manifestation of my findings on space and place,

I wanted to explore how interaction transforms a space into a place.

The bare wall is an impersonal space that is transformed into place when

viewers physically interact and place the objects on the wall.

Interactive element is important as I want people to impose there own

idea of how the objects should be arranged and how the space should look.

Etchezzzz

Beardy Man Take 2

I did an etching workshop for the whole of yesterday that was just lovely. And, having taken my sketchbook with me, i recreated my beardy man on a zinc plate and spent the last hour or so printing. It was so lovely learning the whole complicated-but-not-really process of what i though was just scratching into a plate and printing and i made sure i made notes so i can amble in there on a friday and just do it myself next time. My prints are still drying in the etching room so i'll just have to content myself by scanning in the plate covered with my greasy fingerprints.

FINALLY

i got to do letterpress yesterday. So so fun, i was in the room from quarter to 10 to quarter past 4 with no venturing out and hardly any sitting down. A lot of ink on paper i must say. Nothing too difficult, but it was nice doing the same repetitive motion until it felt comfortable and i fully got to grips with the furniture and amount of ink and the hand press. A friendly group of first years surrounded me with expectant faces waiting for me to give them an induction in the afternoon... although it was more likely that it was that i was covered in ink and the only one in the room than me looking like a pro. but i can pretend. Scans to come, and all day screen printing on friday. cue celebratory music:

Faber & Faber

I've got my eye on a delightful hardback set of 6 poetry classics Faber & Faber have released for their 80th birthday, including Sylvia Plath and John Betjeman, each with a cover and end-paper created by a different printmaker; Paul Catherall, Peter Lawrence, Joe McLaren, Clare Curtis, Heaney Nick Morley and Mark Hearld.

They're all absoloutly gorgeous and i love that F&F are promoting works by these amazing artists. Nicely enough, i've found an article covering this on the creative review website with individual close ups of some of the books and their end-papers to whet your appetites.

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2009/april/fabers-80th-anniversary-poetry-covers

picture courtesy of design sponge
http://www.designspongeonline.com/2009/06/faber-poetry-covers.html