COMBINATIONS 2014
Combinations held at Seacourt Print Workshop, Northern Ireland, July 2014 and at Wharepuke Gallery, New Zealand in August 2014. The exhibition brought together five artists (Duncan Bullen, Veronique Chance, Johanna Love, Mark Graver, Stephen Mumberson) with a shared interest in hybrid and inter-medial approaches to printmaking and the relationship between established print media and evolving technologies.
My contribution to this exhibition was a series of A3 monochrome printer drawings made with the Arial 6pt line, covering all 11 greys in the Adobe Illustrator greyscale palette. All eleven greys coexist in equal proportions and are presented as they occur, each repeated. Unlike my pencil drawings, these works display mechanical precision, with the irregularities of the authorial, autographic hand removed. The simple organisational system, the repository of predetermined line and space, keeps my subjectivity to a minimum and allows the lines simply to be themselves.
