Paper on Paper, a dialogue

An infinite exchange between surfaces, with paper the material, ink the medium of translation …and printmaking the voice.

 

'Paper on Paper, a dialogue', Offset surface
print, won 3rd prize at the First Impressions
National Printmaking Awards 2013

 

This series of prints develops a variation of relief printing, where instead of ink being rolled onto the surface of a plate, the ink is ‘offset’ printed onto a surface, and then printed again, in multiple layers and variations. These works challenge the traditional ethos of prints as an edition of near identical images, from a single matrix. Infinitely re-arranged, reversed, and printed in various layers and colours… no two are the same. Yet they are not monotypes, standing completely alone.

I have numbered the edition in the usual way, using EV (edition variable), to show that within the edition, the prints have significant differences. They are original prints in the accepted sense but they are also individual images, falling only loosely within the structure of an edition. Initial developmental prints are labelled as artists proofs.