Combinations

Seacourt Print Workshop

The centre for contemporary printmaking
Unit 20 Dunlop Industrial Estate, 8 Balloo Drive,
Bangor (Down) BT19 7QY
Northern Ireland
Exhibition Opening Wed 9th July 7.00 – 9.00pm
Exhibition runs Wednesday 9th July – Friday August 1st 2014.

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Curated by Mark Graver (Wharepuke Print Studio) Combinations brings together a group of artists from New Zealand and the UK with a shared interest in hybrid and intermedial approaches to printmaking and the relationship between established print media and evolving technologies.
When it comes to techniques and processes printmaking has a history of adaptability and versatility – it is one of its fundamental strengths – and printmakers have always adapted their craft in tandem with evolutions in technology, often finding artistic applications where they were not necessarily intended.
Combining traditional methods with developments in digital technology and print in a wider context the artists represented here acknowledge both the historical traditions and the technological advancements. Their work is not appropriation of technology for technology’s sake but an awareness of the conceptual connections and combinations between the two and includes 3D, video, photopolymer etching and digital prints.
Participating artists:
Duncan Bullen – Course Leader Fine Art Printmaking University of Brighton
Veronique Chance – Course Leader in the MA Fine Art and MA Printmaking at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
Nicholas Devison -Independent artist printmaker
Johanna Love – Pathway Leader for MA Printmaking at Camberwell College of Arts
Mark Graver – Director Wharepuke Print Studio, co-Director with Tania Booth, Art at Wharepuke, Kerikeri, New Zealand
Stephen Mumberson – Reader in Fine art Printmaking Middlesex University

Duncan, Veronique, Nicholas, Mark and Stephen will be present at the opening and will give a floor talk about the exhibition.

Combinations is an introduction to a larger project Re:Print/Re:Present. Co-curated by Mark Graver and Veronique Chance, RE:Print is a sustainable, fluid, evolving entity that can develop, expand (or contract) into numerous international exhibitions, exchanges and collaborative research processes and projects with non-hierarchical entry and exit points.