Printmaking

Intaglio and Silkscreen Printing on Paper and Clay

Collographs

These three untitled prints are intaglio collographs. The plates are made from card and were scratched and cut into and the surfaces built up with paper, card, tapes, PVA glue, etc. This is a printing process I hope to return to more in the future.

Ceramic Plaques

The images for these teasels were scribed into plaster blocks. Using the intaglio method they were inked and printed onto the clay at the leather hard stage.

Porcelain Spheres

Creating these spheres came about as a result of much experimentation while doing my final project at University. Finding a paper that would burn away in the kiln without leaving a deposit, was a huge challenge but I eventually found a cotton paper that burned clean. I silkscreened the images onto the A4 cotton paper and spread a coating of slip over the printed images. At the correct stage of dryness I scrunched the sheets into two halves of a spherical mould. The paper burned away clean leaving the images on the fired clay. The concept was to do with ‘history overlooking important aspects of existence’ (lost information). Each sphere relates to one of my research sites, ‘Croick Sphere’ (Scottish Highlands), ‘Dovecote Sphere’ (Greater London) & ‘Maeshowe Spere’ (Orkney).

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