Wednesday, 19 November 2014

Papua New Guinea theme / research inspires Printmaking Class works

This work has two layers. A woodblock PNG flag and a dry point rendering of a map of the Samarai Island area combine to give interesting effect. The final works for this class included an additional layer of a "steel plate etching" taken from a photo of my families arrival in this area in 1982.

Scratchings, visual diary research and collage combine;


This above work is inspired by British-born Australian painter, John Wolseley. 
In a series of works he examines Wallace´s Line, named after Alfred Russel Wallace, who pioneered work in animal geography, and marked the channel between Bali and Lombok as a divide between two great zoogeographic regions, the Oriental and Australian.


In further research I discovered this blog from Papua New Guinea; 

Although while in Bali I did not have the correct type of paper for rubbings; I developed works based on photos I took from a moving car. My challenge was to give back the feeling of movement a digital photo does not give. In the second it takes to pass a building you can only take in / analyse a limited amount of information. 

These collages that combine Photoshop filter rendered works combined with straight colour printout, aim to reduce the amount of information available to be analysed in a still photo;
These works went on to be the core of my presentation for drawing class.