"IV Square" by Sandra Blow RA.

Sandra Blow RA. IV Square (2004)

Screenprint on paper. The Golder - Thompson Gift (2010) (c) The Estate of Sandra Blow

A second print from this issue of Printmaking Today, in which I can see the need for the 'Public Understanding of Science' amid great uncertainty.


My source:
Simmons, R. A Collection of Collections, Printmaking Today, Spring 2019, Volume 28. pp.36-37.

"Four Colours Make a Forest" c/o Donna Ong

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	Donna Ong “Four Colours Make a Forest” UV Printed on Aluminium Plates, Wires, Concrete

"Singaporean artist Donna Ong sources tropical imagery from 18th-century lithographs for her work, Four Colours Make a Forest, which looks at interpretations of the tropics as alluring paradise or places of threat. She will present two perceptions of jungle on a billboard: on one side a collaged layout of tropical landscape prints (a colonial view), on the other a digital camouflage pattern (a militarized view).".p.24.

My source: Kiggell, R. Hot Printing, Preview, Printmaking Today, Winter 2018, 27,4, p.24.

Butt up against the Boxes...?

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myth

Hodges' model may seem to suggest (as above) that its purpose is to help categorise and put things - concepts - into boxes. While this is true, the model's primary purpose is to support users (and especially learners) to 'see' and reflect upon the (disciplinary) scope of what is being paid attention to and what is not. Ultimately, as we organise our thinking, we can collapse this series of boxes into what will hopefully be a meaningful whole. If this scoping is also conceptual, then the model's two axes also serve to denote implicitly the many oppositions - dichotomies that must also be negotiated (one way or another). This does not represent an appeal to, or for conceptual or information overload. Quite the contrary. We may acknowledge that uncertainties remain, information is missing. It is meaning that counts. What is salient. Meaningful as pertains to the specific context or situation at the time and the sharing of this meaning.

Image: Sisifo rassegnato/Sisyphus Resigned (1983) Copper engraving, 109 x 161 mm

My source: Cuttings, Obituary Jürgen Czaschka (1943-2018), Printmaking Today, Autumn 2018, p.19.

Observing colour from the Political domain

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	"Kentridge was ideally placed to observe the absurdity of a political system based on colour ..." p.6.

Coldwell, P. (2018) Traces of Time, Printmaking Today, Autumn 2018, pp.6-7.

When a Double-Page Spread is not Enough ...

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VA ".. how important is the notion of the book or the page to your research and outcomes?" AGV "They are fundamental to my research.

I explore the double-page spread as a material support and a discursive space for visual ideas within an exhibition context. ...

The double-page spread is for me an extended space, a place to develop a site-specific practice.

... My intention is to generate meaning through symbolic signification, enhancing its material qualities through mirroring, folds, reflections and echoes."

Source: In Conversation, PRINTMAKING TODAY, Spring 2018, Cello Press Ltd. Volume 27, No. 1 Issue 105, p.4. Victoria Ahrens talks to Altea Grau Vidal about her PhD research and the format of the double-page spread as an opening for all her work.