Torsion is available in two variations: indigo lacquer and silvered, and as a pair of larger works: REZ / indigo lacquer and REZ / silvered.
About Torsion
There’s an opportunity with digital tools to re-edit and re-process existing material, so around the time I drew Torsion, I was experimenting with the idea of multiply processing new drawings in a sequential or linear series, as opposed to a parallel process.
Effectively creating an original study, and then using that as the basis for the next study, but taking it in a new direction, with each new sequence in the process adding a new twist, or complexity, to the work.
I’d been reading about psychedelic typography and the amazing Sister Corita Kent who had come up with the beautifully simple idea of painting her fluid typographic forms onto rubber balloons, before blowing them up and then photographing the newly distorted typography, to make psychedelic poster art. Torsion effectively steals that idea, although I feel that it’s an idea that has come in from more than just that one source.
The idea for the drawing comes from a number of places, certainly natural forms like wheat or barley, but also from the modernist sculptural work of Walter Leblanc, and his idea that if you heat up a thin rectangular bar of steel, and torque one end through a number of rotations, whilst clamping the other end firmly, the resulting form will be a hugely satisfying candy twist of metal.
So it is with Torsion, rectangular columns of individually tessellated components, each one containing a unique interior glazed detail, are partially torqued to form the final image.
I made the final editions in a deep indigo glaze, and a silvery white variation, and in their larger REZ versions, the works tend to be cut into three equal panels, which I hope emphasises the sculptural nature of the drawings on the wall.
Torsion in situ
Price and dimensions
Torsion / REZ / indigo lacquer is a metallic Lambda photographic print, optionally mounted to Plexiglass and Dibond, and fitted with a hidden subframe, ready to install.
Work can be supplied unmounted and ready to frame if you’d prefer.
The work is individually signed and numbered verso, with both a unique catalogue raisonné number and the edition number for guaranteed authenticity.
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From an edition of 4
Image size ⋅ 240cm H x 200cm W ⋅ 3 panels
Artwork only, ready to frame ⋅ £5,800
Mounted behind Plexiglass and fitted with a hidden subframe ⋅ £7,800
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Dimensions and framing specs can be varied on request, to suit your space.
Please do get in touch here if you’d like to discuss possibilities ⟶
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