Printmaking is largely miss-understood in a contemporary art context and generally confined to historical processes.
This is the departure point for these works. I see printmaking as potentially the most relevant form of contemporary art, it straddles both traditional and contemporary visual culture. Using a historical knowledge of print and visual production, I acknowledge that printmaking is the origin of our current visual world. All visual technologies derive from the historical processes of printmaking.
Looking towards mass production as a form of printmaking. I produce prints as published pages in popular visual art magazines.
The process of mass produced offset lithography is an updated version of the traditional stone lithograph with this insight I produce my own version of printmaking as mass produced unlimited print editions available at the cost of a magazine.
The aesthetic is text and basic forms, commenting on print and popular culture simultaneously.
I work outside the traditional concepts of unique object exclusivity limited edition and gallery.
My work is an attempt to democratise/inform/play/quote/humour and revitalise printmaking.
offset print on five separate pages of Art Almanac
22 x 150cm
Finalist in the East Gippsland Artist Book Awards
Hors de commerce
offset print on two pages of Art Collector
150 x 150cm
Finalist in the Hazelhurst Works on Paper Award
Unique state
offset print on two pages of Art Monthly
dimensions variable
Finalist in the Ex Libris Artist Book Awards
H.C
offset print in Art Collector
30 x 40cm
Finalist in the Archangel Art Award 2010
Hotmetal
offset print in Island literary magazine
22 x 12 cm
Finalist in the Burnie Print Prize 2009
Four panel form
offset print on two pages in Art Almanac
42 x 60cm
Finalist in the Geelong Print Award 2009
Hot process
offset print in Art Almanac
22 x 15cm
Winner of the Fremantle Print Award 2008