Publishing, Mediating and Archiving Artists’ Books

Article commissioned by Codex Polaris; creating opportunities and exhibiting platforms for artists who work with books in Norway and the Nordic countries. https://www.codexpolaris.com/texts.htmlpublishedVersio

Wo(rk)manship: Transforming reduction into tessellating multi-block relief prints

This article documents practice-led research from the artist’s position as print ‘maker’ within contemporary craft. The methodology embodies David Pye’s first-hand account of the workmanship of risk. The project integrates Computer Numerical Control (CNC) milling to overcome process limitations; to realise scalable complex multi-block relief prints and to allow further exploration in colour printing. The report reflects on the process of transforming reduction relief prints into tessellating multi-block relief prints, as well as commenting on the situation and timescale in which the research took place. The outcome delivers new insights into the author’s artistic practice.publishedVersio

Material Empathy in the Manufacture of a Multi-block Printed Wallcovering

This paper reflects on the interconnection between studio and factory production as the merging and metamorphosis of my printmaking practice. Specifically, the ‘process of correspondence’ (Ingold, 2013) in the making of multi-block matrices prior to factory printing. In 2020, Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo funded my artistic research, to embody ‘material empathy as the physicality of craft’ (Shales, 2017) in the manufacture of a multi-block printed wallcovering. How did first-hand knowledge of factory production impact my studio practice? What new insights into printmaking were revealed through the delimitations of manufacturing?Material Empathy in the Manufacture of a Multi-block Printed WallcoveringpublishedVersio