Island ii screen print (Crash Ensemble Series)

Title: “Island ii”
Medium: 3-colour screen print
Dimensions: 40 x 40cm
Edition: 25

***Exhibited at National Concert Hall, Dublin, Kilkenny Arts Festival, Kilkenny; New Music Dublin, Dublin; Sounds From A Safe Harbour, Cork.***

Description: The pair of “Island” screen prints were done in the same approach with the previous “Landscape” pair, with the second in the pair being the more abstract of the two. For the image here, the drawing is simply made from a single continuous drawing using circular forms that form tangents to the square's outer edge. Like the other “Island” & “Landscape” images, I wanted to create as rich and even a film of ink as possible when screen-printing, so the screen was flooded 4-5 times for each subsequent print.
The starting point for both “Landscape” and “Island” came from little paper cut-out collages I had used some years ago for La Blogothèque & Fractured Air’s monthly mixtape collaborations. Adopting the same principles of loosely forming positive shapes and trapping adjacent colours (but only roughly doing so by eye) allowed these screen prints to have more unpredictable bleeds and overprints, giving a more loose and imperfect appearance as a result. Slightly mis-registering the subsequent colours in different ways was also something I adopted here, allowing for each print in the edition to be unique. The “Landscape” pair are done from four screens, whereas “Island” comprises three screens. Part “i” of each is the more representational image, while part “ii” is the more abstract.

Part of a print series for Crash Ensemble’s 25th anniversary weekend at National Concert Hall, Dublin during December 2022, and exhibited throughout 2023.