Prints
One of the final print runs made for the recent Graduate exhibition were these Monerflex tiles. After making large scale prints on 2M wide x 5-6M long sections of plastic material it felt natural to compliment them with a more traditional run of roughly A2 sized prints. For this i made a set of 4 prints with 9 of each print made. This was a great chance to explore further the translucency of the material & the detail between the front & back surface which is exposed once printed on.
Within the exhibition set up these prints were suspended inside a scaffold structure. This structure was then covered in Monarflex. The translucent covering gave hints of the fluorescent images inside & for the curious viewers glimpses of the prints could be seen. The buildings shown are all famous or revered, they are looked after, renovated & used. A contrast to the images elsewhere on the outside on the scaffold structure. Architecture is printed in black on one side with a highlight of bright colour reminiscent of hi-vis on a building site on the reverse. Displaying the prints in this way plays with the norms of exhibiting screen prints. These images are printed onto a pre used durable plastic which comes with its own scars, tears & dirt that were picked up on the building site. So to frame them & line them up on the wall would not suit this work in this exhibition. They dont have a precious quality nor are they perfect, they perhaps hark back to the political background of print, exposing the rawness of the material & realness of the surface plus the implementation of the hand that pulls the squeegee & washes the screen.