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Prints about virtual space 

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I see the prints exploring places via the images on Google earth as being prints about virtual spaces., in the same way that I see the imagined landscapes that I create as being irtual spaces.  

There are a number of different series of prints in this category but all share the process of using drypoint and carborundum plates to reference the way that landscapes are created by the effects of erosion and deposition.

 

Virtual Pilgrimage

The prints in this series were made in response to ideas about the places I wanted to visit when confined at home during the second lockdown. My thoughts turned to ideas of medieval anchorites confined to a building yet journeying in their minds, and consequently I explored digitally (using Google earth and street view) various medieval pilgrimage routes. Eventually focusing on the route across Mull from Iona, these prints aim to express visually the feeling of being in those wild places while still confined in my home.

 

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The past is a foreign country

 These prints are the result of a collaborative project with Portuguese artist Eunice Gonçalves Duarte. Separated by more than 1,500 miles we explored the way we perceive time and place and its centrality in the creation of memories.

 

Working with a photo album from the 1960’s which Eunice had found we worked together to create an installation, a number of large scale prints I made in response to the locations in the album onto which Eunice projected magic lantern images made in response to the photos in the album. We explored the idea that to think about the past is more than recalling distant and intangible events; it works as fragments of a story that can be rearranged and reinvented or even can bring the invisible to the visible world.

 

This relativley samll series of prints were developed  after our initial collaboration as I created an abstract and imagined geography, of new horizons and changing distances, disconnected from the original places where the images of the places which inspired them

 

 

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Dark skies

 These prints were the result of a winter residency in Cornwall which made me consider the areas relationship with the night sky. Visits to the stone circles at Tregeseal and Boscawen- Un where the stones were sited with reference to the seasonal movements of the sun and moon and stars.

I was aware of more than the circle’s physical forms; a feeling of otherness and their mystic qualities. In these prints I have created landscapes, not ones which I have seen, but which I had felt.

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