mooresk1323738x: Print

Printmaking

Accumulate and Disperse

If Print is the marrying of two surface, resulting in a permanent or semi-permanent mark, monoprinting is the ultimate basic of this. There are no controls for reproducibility and therefore no limitations, so long as a mark is made and not in too painterly a way.

My influences include Peter Liversidge (British 1973), who co-opts everyday materials into his work and who uses the postal system to give an unpredictability to the turn out of his final pieces, like the postcard works of On Kawara (Japanese 1933). He has used embossing in printmaking mainly.

William Kentridge (South African 1955) who places prints upon prints is also important to me as this above example of his work illustrates, it often dissolves on close inspection but gives a dramatic scene with depth at a distance. He also calls upon nature frequently as a theme which I am inclined to do.

Prints from nature...

The dispersal (around the garden) and accumulation (by me) of feathers.

Print made using metallic spray paint onto feathers, then pressing paper on top.

Monoprint.

Accumulation of two days of outdoor dirt and prints onto paper.

Monoprint.

Defrosting fish heads. Fish blood monoprint onto paper.
Kathryn Moores 2013

By layering a stack of paper beneath the defrosting heads, a series of prints was created, each unique and following on from the piece of paper above it.

Spores 2013
Kathryn Moores
Mushrooms disintegration onto paper (A1)

Accumulated mushrooms, dispersing their spores onto the paper as they degrade over a few days. Monoprint.

The arrangement of the mushroom caps into a spiral arrangement is attempting to evoke a mechanical feel, like cogs within a mechanism or complex arrangement.

Small feature of a different mushroom monoprint.
Kathryn Moores 2013

Just as Nature is important in my printmaking work, the concept of communication of ideas or Memes (see Richard Dawkin's work) which are culturally shared and altered through basic pictorial or symbolic means. The most obvious case of this is Religion, with some symbols being particular to one faith and others being shared by many, not only faiths but political and social regimes.

Toast
Kathryn Moores 2013
7cm diam.
The idea of the ancient icon was produced for this monoprint, first by using wax-resist and watercolour and secondly by using the idea of a Saint appearing in an unexpected way, classically on a piece of toast.

Graven Image
Kathryn Moores 2013
Acrylic and Wax on paper (A1)

The religious and iconographic ideas are easily incorporated into collograph work. The collograph Angel and the Monument to a Soldier are examples.

Monument to a soldier

Kathryn Moores 2013

Collograph. Ink on paper (A4)

Shellac-covered collograph plates

Kathryn Moores 2013

The Collograph Angel

Kathryn Moores 2013

Ink on paper (A4)

It was my attempt at furthering the idea of the religious print which led me to produce a full body print, inspired by the famous but controversial Shroud of Turin. I began by mixing acrylic paint with a body lotion to prevent it from drying out. I then prepared a sheet with which to cover myself and applied to body paint and some make up to accentuate facial features. The results were varied as the photos show but I believe this is worthy of repetition.

The above is a detail from the face of the print.

Body Print (detail) 2013

Kathryn Moores

Paint on fabric

Body Print 2013

Kathryn Moores

Paint on fabric

220cm x 167cm

The above shows the reverse of the print on the left hand side and the frontal print on the right hand side. The spine can be seen left-centre and the two differently coloured thighs can be picked out slightly diagonally on the right hand side of the print.

The painted nude from which the print was taken.

Print in Three Dimensions

In Preparation for the reveal of the first stage of printing in 3D

Kathryn Moores 2013

The bubble-wrapped sheets prepped with red ink

Kathryn Moores 2013

Before the printing

Kathryn Moores 2013

Reflect.

Mirror, glass, ink and Paper

Kathryn Moores 2013

Drypoint Printing allows for the repetition of prints being produced from a single plate. Some examples are as follows. These can be overlapped, over-inked, re-printed and so on to produce monoprints.

Fish (2013)

Weather (2013)

Dog (2013)

Eye (2013)

Eye Eye (2013)

Kathryn Moores

Monoprints

Ink on paper

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Pyrotechnic Print Making

Inspired by the work of Cuban born artist Ana Mendieta, who first created prints using her own body in the earth (depressions in soil or mud or traced outlines), or created the shape of her body in the outdoor environment, and then set fire to the resulting shape. Mendieta filled depressions with inflammable liquids, traced the edges of her depressions with gunpowder or set fireworks around the human form she had built.

As Mendieta's work of this type was mainly outdoors it did not lend itself well to preservation and therefore it exists mainly as a photographic record.

On a very small scale, and using indoor pyrotechnics on a wooden platform which would record the imprint of the pyrotechnic event, I have created a series of photographs and prints inspired by Mendieta's work.