I’m very honoured to be a finalist in the Burnie Printmaking Prize with my piece ‘BackHipsBonesLips’.
Handpulled silkscreen on paper - 10 layers, 10 colours
1/1 and 1 artists proof - 56cm x 72cm soft white archival Stonehenge printmaking paper
The shapes are pulled from outlines of life drawing from my own body, entwined and meshing, evoking tumbling hormones and dizzying vertigo. The drawings go through multiple process to get to graphic linear motifs and then again to be transferred to silkscreens. Each step, is a move away from the source material thrust into isolation and brought back to an integrated form.
The intricacies of organs and veins, saps and plasma thrown together as an ornate decorative topology - a map. Pulsing with energy, thriving bacteria and beautiful in its harmonious tension, reflecting the complexity of human anatomy and its raw vitalityy. It speaks to the inherent power of the body to regenerate, adapt, and thrive, even in the face of uncertainty. The work becomes a celebration of the beauty found in flux and change, where chaos and order exist in an intricate, symbiotic relationship.
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