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Mirrorballs And Mixtapes
Read more: Mirrorballs And MixtapesMusic as healingMusic as connectionMusic as expressions of hope and joyMusic as nourishment of the soul. This new body of work is an ongoing exploration of mood, colour, patterns and repetitions inspired by music. The acts of collecting, listening, dancing and compiling mixtapes have sat alongside and intermingled with Iain’s printmaking practice for many years.…
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Moire Mirror Balls
Read more: Moire Mirror BallsA series of limited edition prints using only 2 layers of colour. In mathematics, physics, and art, moiré patterns (UK: /ˈmwɑːreɪ/ MWAR-ay, US: /mwɑːˈreɪ/ mwar-AY,[1] French: [mwaʁe] ⓘ) or moiré fringes[2] are large-scale interference patterns that can be produced when a partially opaque ruled pattern with transparent gaps is overlaid on another similar pattern. For…
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More Than The Sum
Read more: More Than The SumAcrylic paint with printing medium on plywood panels Created in collaboration with Art Club groups run by Urban Wilderness in Longton, Stoke on Trent. These pieces of work were collaboratively created as part of my Develop Your Creative Practice grant awarded by Arts Council England in 2023. One of the focusses of the DYCP project…
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Art Club with Urban Wilderness
Read more: Art Club with Urban WildernessThe last three Tuesday afternoons I have spent working with the young people who attend an Art Club in Longton, Stoke on Trent run by Urban Wilderness at The Mooney Club. Part of this plan has been to reconsider aspects of my practice and to future proof it. I have been running how to print…
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Plans Change
Read more: Plans ChangeIt feels like a lot has changed in the short time of applying for the grant in December, receiving the good news in March and putting things into play in May/June. I’ve recently taken the decision to move the “residency” part of the project back to my studio at home (with some stretched out printing…
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Thinking Geometry
Read more: Thinking GeometryNo printing or collage this week. I’ve mostly been thinking about practical geometry this week, rather than the joys of curves, lines and the potential for moire; it’s been rectangles. What rectangles fit inside another rectangle. Small problems being solved in big diy shops. Building a new “portable” print bed that’s bigger than the one…
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Residency Day 19.05.23
Read more: Residency Day 19.05.23Laying out some old test prints, it’s great to see larger prints all out at the same time. Spent some time yesterday musing on scale. Prints that feel large either as a practical object to work on and move around or as a piece for someone’s home can feel pretty ginormous but in a larger…
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Studio Wall 07.05.23
Read more: Studio Wall 07.05.23Slow to move to print. Currently in a looking and thinking phase. Making some selections of prints to remix. Watch The Ride – The Return Journey. Imagining these shapes bigger – incorporating more negative space (allow the eye moments of rest before back into the fray of working out where to go next in these…
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Studio Wall – 02.05.2023
Read more: Studio Wall – 02.05.2023A collection of collaged screenprints from the last 3 years. I started cutting up and reworking prints during lockdown. In this act of cutting up and gluing over – lots of accidental (and then not so accidental) compositions began to emerge. I’d discovered a much more physical way to design imagery and work on layouts.…
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