Contemporary Printmaking and Digital Practice 2021 : Moving Image by Rolina Blok
START | STOP | START
Contemporary Printmaking and Digital Practice End of Year show 2020/21
Lucie Gutfreundova / Robert Jones / Bronagh Kennedy / Alpana Kishore / Nasrin Parvaz
Contemporary Printmaking and Digital Practice End of Year show 2020/21
Lucie Gutfreundova / Robert Jones / Bronagh Kennedy / Alpana Kishore / Nasrin Parvaz
START | STOP | START is a student led group exhibition realised by the students of Contemporary Printmaking and Digital Practice 2020/21 at City Lit. Their exhibition explores the boundaries of multiple spaces of interaction and viewing art through printmaking in all its possible forms. The exhibition takes the shape of a website (online exhibition), a display case in City Lit (temporary) and a handmade publication, created in response to their online identity project which you can request to view in the print room on the third floor of the City Lit building.
The title of the show references a multitude of experiences the students have had on this advanced year long course. START | STOP | START is a direct reference to how the course was influenced by yet another lockdown. We started the first term in late autumn 2020, followed unfortunately by a lockdown during the second term, with the third term allowing us to return to the digital lab and the print room. The STOP does not refer to the student’s production, they continued the course online and produced wonderful and challenging works – some of which you can see here. Each student has a different practice, but there is always a key element which brings a group together – a want and need to explore printmaking. Over the past academic year, the students have been in a vigorous dialogue with multiple approaches to printmaking, e.g. moving image, 3D printing, photolithography, relief printing, etc., in tandem with their individual concepts whilst developing their own aesthetic values. When we start to talk about how printmaking informs contemporary practice, we focus on introducing students to an interdisciplinary approach seeing as the theory of what a print can be is infinite. When referring to STOP within this context it can refer to a reflective period for each individual, followed by starting the dialogue again. Works that were once started can become dormant for numerous reasons, therefor START can be interpreted as a reactivation.
By exhibiting their works, the students have now revealed their conversation about contemporary printmaking, and we are delighted to invite you to continue this dialogue and to view and interact with their tremendous body of work.
On behalf of the students, we would like to thank all the tutors for their guidance, magnificent ideas, and challenging projects. I would like to congratulate the students on all their hard work, laborious contemplation, and tremendous realisation of their final year show(s).
Rolina E. Blok
Course Leader for Contemporary Printmaking and Digital Practice
City Lit - Centre for Advanced Practice - School of Visual Arts
PLEASE CLICK ON IMAGES BELOW TO VIEW INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS GALLERY PAGE
The title of the show references a multitude of experiences the students have had on this advanced year long course. START | STOP | START is a direct reference to how the course was influenced by yet another lockdown. We started the first term in late autumn 2020, followed unfortunately by a lockdown during the second term, with the third term allowing us to return to the digital lab and the print room. The STOP does not refer to the student’s production, they continued the course online and produced wonderful and challenging works – some of which you can see here. Each student has a different practice, but there is always a key element which brings a group together – a want and need to explore printmaking. Over the past academic year, the students have been in a vigorous dialogue with multiple approaches to printmaking, e.g. moving image, 3D printing, photolithography, relief printing, etc., in tandem with their individual concepts whilst developing their own aesthetic values. When we start to talk about how printmaking informs contemporary practice, we focus on introducing students to an interdisciplinary approach seeing as the theory of what a print can be is infinite. When referring to STOP within this context it can refer to a reflective period for each individual, followed by starting the dialogue again. Works that were once started can become dormant for numerous reasons, therefor START can be interpreted as a reactivation.
By exhibiting their works, the students have now revealed their conversation about contemporary printmaking, and we are delighted to invite you to continue this dialogue and to view and interact with their tremendous body of work.
On behalf of the students, we would like to thank all the tutors for their guidance, magnificent ideas, and challenging projects. I would like to congratulate the students on all their hard work, laborious contemplation, and tremendous realisation of their final year show(s).
Rolina E. Blok
Course Leader for Contemporary Printmaking and Digital Practice
City Lit - Centre for Advanced Practice - School of Visual Arts
PLEASE CLICK ON IMAGES BELOW TO VIEW INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS GALLERY PAGE
The Tower
The symmetry of the building translates well into a graphic image when mirrored and rotated. A building well known to the City Lit community.
Photopolymer plate relief print, Robert Jones
The symmetry of the building translates well into a graphic image when mirrored and rotated. A building well known to the City Lit community.
Photopolymer plate relief print, Robert Jones
Dark Smiler
An image exploring the duality of happiness and sadness. A possible false front or the dark side of happiness.
Woodblock print, Robert Jones
An image exploring the duality of happiness and sadness. A possible false front or the dark side of happiness.
Woodblock print, Robert Jones
Lucie Gutfreund
Lucie Gutfreund
2D to 3D to 2D
A scan of a 3D model produced from a 2D paper template.
Laserjet print, Robert Jones
A scan of a 3D model produced from a 2D paper template.
Laserjet print, Robert Jones