I’ve taken a little break from the sinister structures today and have had fun some with experimental printmaking. I haven’t really just been playing around though, there was a purpose. I wanted to see what type of printing could be adjusted to be simple for children and also be used for portable pop up workshops for a proposal I’m hoping to get funded. So I’ve been working with simple monoprints and relief printing. With as little mess and cleaning up as possible.
It’s been quite successful. I used an old cardboard plate for trying out how successful relief printing would be without a press and its not bad at all. I also made a small cardboard plate with an addition that I used later and this has worked although when I’d already started it I thought of simpler ways to do it. The monoprinting obviously takes the least time and using a waterbased ink was so easy to clean up.
It’s hopefully going to be part of a very large project in New York. The opportunity has come about through the group that took my work to the Stockholm Art fair and I’ve been involved in their projects twice since then. I’m going to be in the exhibition which I haven’t started the work for yet! I’m going to produce a paper installation inspired by microscopic images of diseases maybe accompanied by a book or series of books. But if I get funding for a residency I will also produce an installation with the community (or possibly add to mine, but I’d like to keep the two separate) and I need to work out what it is I’m going to offer! Ideally I’d like to go into primary schools and do one day or half day workshops, in secondary schools and colleges I’d like to do two day workshops, but the workshop I am concentrating on to begin is the drop in style workshop for the community. This one needing to be the most versatile to suit different surroundings and age and I imagine this one might be the only one I use as I don’t know yet where I would be working as it’s up in the air until I’ve secured funding.
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