the 90’s

Combining a growing confidence in photoetching & a full embrace of subject matter, my graduate work reflected deeply on the passing of my father using site-specific photography, texts & musical score (all created by dad himself), fixed within a triptych layout to purvey both narrative & a filmic passage of time.

These were all 2-plate etchings, with the photographic plate rendered first; the subsequent plate had the text/score/drawn elements with colour relief.  The work was heavily informed by Philip Guston’s later works, on which I wrote my supporting thesis.

Once I returned to printmaking several years later, I explored further musings on the passage of time & started to reflect on wider human behaviour, our place in the environment, & more personal elements concerning my confidence or otherwise in the world…

I really started to trust myself as an artist following a residency in Cork in 1998, which allowed me to devote the time I needed to my continued learning & output. From here, both the scale and content began to evolve, climaxing in 1999 with the creation of ‘Pondlife’ (see top of the page).

All of the Images below are in chronological order, from the Graduate etchings through to the Cork etchings & monoprints….

Untitled (#1, Degree Show ’94), Photoetching, AP, Not for Sale

Untitled (#2, Degree Show ’94), Photoetching, APs, Not for Sale

Untitled (#3, Degree Show ’94), Photoetching, AP, NFS

Untitled (#4, Degree Show ’94), Photoetching, AP, £150 1 remaining

Untitled (’93), Photoetching, AP, NFS

Untitled (#5, Degree Show ’94), Photoetching, AP, NFS

Untitled (#1 [Wandsworth Bridge], postgrad ’94), Photoetching, Edition 1, £150

Untitled (#2, postgrad ’94), Photoetching, Edition 1, £150

Untitled (#3 [ladders], postgrad ’94), Photoetching, AP, NFS

Untitled (#4 [garage], postgrad ’94), Photoetching, AP, Edition 1, £110

Untitled (#7 [cranes], postgrad ’94), Photoetching, AP, NFS

Untitled (#5 [Richmond Park], postgrad ’94), Photoetching, AP, NFS

Untitled, [road trip] ’97, Photoetching, APs, £80, 4 remaining

Untitled (#6 [Bognor], postgrad ’94), Photoetching, AP, NFS

Skibbereen (Cork) Monoprint sketch, 1998, NFS

SF II, ’97, Photoetching, Edition 1, NFS

SF I, ’97, Photoetching, 4 remaining APs, 4 remaining from 1 Edition of 8, £130

Allegory II, ’97, Photoetching, Edition 1, £130, 6 remaining from edition of 8

SF III, ’97, Photoetching, 4 remaining APs, £200

Allegory I, ’97, Photoetching, Edition 1, £130, 3 remaining from edition of 8

Cork Monoprint sketch, 1998, NFS

Cork Monoprint sketch, 1998, NFS

Blarney Street, Monoprint, 1998, 45cm x 60cm, NFS – Happy Cork Residency memories of nights in on Blarney Street, by the fire , Reading, chatting, listening to Friendly FM

‘Model Cottages, Blarney Street’, Monoprint, 1998, NFS. happy Cork Residency memories of nights in on Blarney Street, by the fire, Reading, chatting, listening to Friendly FM

Cork II, Photoetching, 1998, AP, not for sale

‘Cork I’, Photoetching, 1998, AP, not for sale

‘Cork III’, Photoetching, 1998, AP, not for sale

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