Steven Allen
Title: Human
Artwork(s): 7
Size(s): Mainly A4 - A3, framed
Medium: Photographic Etching
A body of work portraying the trace of humanity through time, exploring the idea of what it is to be 'human' or the ideology of 'humanity'.
Stephen Boyd
Title: Journey Through the Past
Artwork(s): 3
Size(s): 42cm x 32cm
Medium: Photographic Etching
My recent artworks draw upon remnants of imagery accumulated during the development of several museum-based exhibitions, over a 15 year period. Returning to this content after a hiatus of five years, has prompted me to reflect on the assets of collections that are rarely seen. I often sensed a latent potential in the otherwise melancholic encounter with artworks & artifacts consigned to storage, a signal of changing taste and declining cultural capital.
The works planned for Dèda, aim to exploit the semi-transparent characteristics of multi plate etching. The lamination of content extracted from both institutional & personal sources, has become a compelling process for me. I hope that the drift towards autobiography avoids the trap of sentimentality while permitting a journey through my past (to paraphrase Neil Young).
Louise Dearden
Title:tentative working title: "3 lines--tracing the ancestry of Haiku"
Artwork(s): 5
Size(s): As a rough guide, I anticipate each print excluding frame will be between 20cm x 20cm and 40cm x 40cm
Medium: Monoprints
I am currently intrigued and inspired by the life and work of the 17th century Japanese poet, Matsuo Basho. My work will connect to the ideas of tracing the ancestry of the Haiku form, the three lines in a Haiku poem, and the physical act of tracing to create monoprints. A linocut is intended to accompany the monoprints.
Kathy Edmonds
Title: No
Artwork(s): 2
Size(s): A4 plus when framed
Medium: Linocut
The natural environment & phenomena.
Lucy Farrow
Title:Nothing set yet but something like - serendipity - little moments of joy - traces of wonder
Artwork(s): 10
Size(s):One large A2 piece a - And a collection of 9 15x15cm - maybe some more small pieces
Medium: Reduction Linocuts
I have decided to focus on the small things in my everyday life that bring me hope and joy for people and the planet. I have decided to highlight the small things that shine out to me and make me smile. I also have a large floral piece, and may do some work on natural light.
Jonathan Gallacher
Title: Ammonites rock!
Artwork(s): 8
Size(s): Tricky! A3 A2
Medium: Solar Plate Etchings / Screen Prints
My initial thoughts linked the exhibition theme to 'vestiges' and 'remains' of life, and also to the tracking of the same. This led me to the fascinating world of ammonite fossils and their planispiral shell formations that resemble rams' horns (more ideas for future work!). I was also drawn to the ear tags of cows - often with RFID technology - that identify the herd of origin and can trace cattle during disease outbreaks.
Aylish Giamei
Title: Colonisation
Artwork(s): 5
Size(s):A5 paper and 20cmx20cm paper - before framing
Medium: Drypoints / Etchings
Microbes and cancer cells colonise our bodies. Plants, animals and humans colonise the planet. We all leave our traces.
This series is inspired by the morphological similarities between microscopic and macroscopic natural and man-made structures.
Alan Jenkins
Title: No but " Traces" is very appropriate
Artwork(s): 10
Size(s):Up to A4 print size. possibly A3
Medium: Drypoints
My printmaking practice involves working fairly intuitively allowing ideas to form during the working process and taking advantage of the accidental finds within the work.
Most of my work involves reworking old print plates or recycling copper pipes or recently laminated posters or tetra packs making use of the marks and traces of a past life found in the plate.
Drypoint is my most used technique inspired from themes of landscape and nature or perhaps for use as a visual score for musicians.
Pandora Johnson
Title: While we wait, we'll watch the flowers grow
Artwork(s): 10~
Size(s): Ranging from A5-A2
Medium: Photopolymer Etchings / Screen Prints
Throughout the Covid lockdown, there were many stories in the news of nature taking back over and recovering due to the sudden reduced human presense. Whilst we were on pause (the term 'anthropause' was coined by ecologists), the natural world healed. I find this fascinating, and want to create a series of prints hinting at this rebalancing of ecosystems due to the pandemic.
Harriet Merry
Title: Sleep Series
Artwork(s): 5
Size(s): Each one framed is est A3-4 but plate is much smaller so I need them to be seen close up
Medium: Etchings
The Sleep Series etchings is a series of etchings taken from sketches, drawn very late at night, of my two boys sleeping. They are not portraits, more a depiction of a child's total abandonment to deep sleep using the delicate and introspective line of intaglio etching. As I create them, I wonder what they see; whether the images of Marvel, Star Wars and Roald Dahl books on their duvets infiltrate their dreams. I think about the darkness around them and likes to think that my presence, often depicted by a fragment of my own duvet, helps them have a calm and happy sleep.
Sandra O'Reilly
Title: Ft
Artwork(s): 2
Size(s): 200mm x 200mm
Medium: Linocuts
Little creatures resting.
Ian Patterson
Title: Traces of Collision
Artwork(s): 7
Size(s): 32cm x 42cm
Medium: Photopolymer Etchings
The reality of nature on the smallest scale is defined by the act of collision. Molecules, atoms and even the components of the sub-atomic world interact by collision. Indeed nature in its widest sense is composed of the "traces" of such collisions. In this series of prints I have tried to visualise an interpretation of this at the smallest of scales.
Kirsty Taylor
Title: No
Artwork(s): 7
Size(s): A3+ all bar one which is bigger
Medium: Collographs
To show the nature topic of what we live with and surrounded by, shown more creatively and a small series about recycling how we can reuse our items with flowers circle of life
Ben Tomlinson
Title: Debris
Artwork(s): 1
Size(s): A2
Medium: Screen Print
When it came to the exhibition title (Traces) my initial thoughts were about what we leave behind as a species, and the marks we make not just on our planet but in space too. This lead me to start looking into the topic of satellites and space debris, which litters Earth's orbit and serves as a kind of strange evidence of modern human civilisation.
Louise Wiseman
Title: not yet but it might do, if inspiration strikes!
Artwork(s): 10
Size(s): Not sure overall, but my pieces are mostly A4 size or smaller
Medium: Cyanotype
A series of wet cyanotypes that were made using flowers, plants etc and also maybe some ordinary cyanotypes. I wondered about framing them all in recycled frames, to continue the theme, but not sure about that. In addition, I have a small number of pieces (a screen print, a tetrapak print and a couple of etchings) that fit the theme, some of which could go in a shared wall, if we're having one.