Prints
Printmaking is used as a way to transform drawings; there is a consistent play between transitory, quick drawings, often from observation, and measured, considered printmaking.Observational Etchings [intaglio] 2021/22
Zoophytes [cyanotype] 2020 ongoing
Metamorphosis [intaglio etching, collaboration with Connie Ashford] 2022
A Dog’s Ear [various] 2022
Film: Drawing -> Printing [various] 2023 ongoing
Toni Morrison Mouth Full of Blood Promotional Film [collaborative collagraph animation] 2020
Zoophytes [cyanotype] 2020 ongoing
Metamorphosis [intaglio etching, collaboration with Connie Ashford] 2022
A Dog’s Ear [various] 2022
Film: Drawing -> Printing [various] 2023 ongoing
Toni Morrison Mouth Full of Blood Promotional Film [collaborative collagraph animation] 2020
One Day We’ll Move Back To The Sea [A1 print] 2022
Observational Etchings
[intaglio]
2022
Etching from observation on pre-prepared plates is a process enjoyed for its contradiction; where fleeting moments become permanent incisions.
[intaglio]
2022
Etching from observation on pre-prepared plates is a process enjoyed for its contradiction; where fleeting moments become permanent incisions.
Girls watching television
Sunbathers
Holiday diptych
Bookbinders
Sunbathers
Holiday diptych
Bookbinders
Zoophytes
[cyanotypes] 2023
A series of cyanotypes using collages from archive images and found elements.
Metamorphosis
[intaglio etchings, collaboration with Connie Ashford]
2022
Generated by switching plates back and forth, three creatures are created. Metamorphosis is an exercise in loosening control and playing with the expectations of the traditional etching process.
[cyanotypes] 2023
A series of cyanotypes using collages from archive images and found elements.
[intaglio etchings, collaboration with Connie Ashford]
2022
Generated by switching plates back and forth, three creatures are created. Metamorphosis is an exercise in loosening control and playing with the expectations of the traditional etching process.
A Dog’s Ear
[intaglio etching/letterpress/monotype/cyanotype]
2022
A Dog’s Ear seeks to expand what it means to illustrate the written word. Culminating in a printed book, various print techniques were used throughout to realise the ‘dog’s ears’ of the books read in the previous year.
‘it took a day to dismantle Lily’s existence’ [six plate intaglio etching]
[intaglio etching/letterpress/monotype/cyanotype]
2022
A Dog’s Ear seeks to expand what it means to illustrate the written word. Culminating in a printed book, various print techniques were used throughout to realise the ‘dog’s ears’ of the books read in the previous year.
‘it took a day to dismantle Lily’s existence’ [six plate intaglio etching]
‘if you eat fish in a dream, does it count? Does it mean you’ve eaten fish?’
[cyanotype animation]
[cyanotype animation]
‘happy one moment and the next like crying’
[letterpress series]
[letterpress series]
‘the terrible fanged open mouth of the sea dragon’
[hand-painted monotype]
[hand-painted monotype]
‘I forced a smile / to this day, I find it hard to gaze directly at people like Hassan, people who mean
every word they say’
[intaglio etchings]
[intaglio etchings]
‘she transformed into something else: a lizard or a
rabbit, which scurried away and took cover in the heart of the bush’
[photo-polymer etching]
[photo-polymer etching]
Film: Drawing -> Printing
[various]
2023 ongoing
A continual practice, of graphic recording whilst watching films, is reimagined through the use of printmaking. Echoing the sentiment of A Dog’s Ear, the work seeks to investigate what it means to ‘illustrate’ popular texts.
Melancholia, Lars Von Trier [monotype]
Babylon, Damien Chazelle [monotype]
Shiva Baby, Emma Seligman [pastel in sketchbook]
[various]
2023 ongoing
A continual practice, of graphic recording whilst watching films, is reimagined through the use of printmaking. Echoing the sentiment of A Dog’s Ear, the work seeks to investigate what it means to ‘illustrate’ popular texts.
Melancholia, Lars Von Trier [monotype]
Babylon, Damien Chazelle [monotype]
Shiva Baby, Emma Seligman [pastel in sketchbook]
Blonde, Andrew Dominik [carbon paper in sketchbook]
Blonde, Andrew Dominik [monotype]
Banshees of Inisherin, Mark McDonagh [carborundum etching]
Banshees of Inisherin,
Mark McDonagh [monotype]
Toni Morrison Mouth Full of Blood Promotional Film
[collaborative collagraph animation]
Collaboration with Cicely Pilkington, Madeleine Desalu and Rebecca Knight
2020
Stop frame animation of collagraph print. As part of a live brief for Vintage Publishing to make a promotional film based on Toni Morrison’s Mouth Full of Blood, a group of four of us made the above 30 second promotional film.
[collaborative collagraph animation]
Collaboration with Cicely Pilkington, Madeleine Desalu and Rebecca Knight
2020
Stop frame animation of collagraph print. As part of a live brief for Vintage Publishing to make a promotional film based on Toni Morrison’s Mouth Full of Blood, a group of four of us made the above 30 second promotional film.