About Stellify 4 / QUAD
Stellify 4 / QUAD is the latest edition for my experimental Print Club. It’s a kind of fragment, or edited crop, from my Stellify 4 / deconstructed series, a set of six new drawings that are worked up as far larger landscape studies, each intended to be at least a metre wide when editioned.
This quad variation features just four of the sixty modular components modelled for the larger studies, but seems to me to have some quiet appeal as a smaller standalone work. Imaged onto Hahnemühle 340 gsm Photo Rag Metallic, I’ve then set the work into a debossed sheet of handmade Somerset paper, which creates a beautiful contrast between the inked and uninked areas, and the two distinct textures of the different papers.
As with older studies like Loop / deep base, I think it works well at this smaller size. I hope it makes for a discrete study in form and negative space. The divided colour split in the background is a new idea that I’m working with too, a device to break the contained space into two distinct areas. It represents a new, directional move along a more graphic pathway, and has been a learning experience for me. One that I’m hoping to explore further in my Stellify 4 deconstructed series.
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Stellify 4 / QUAD / EPC #19
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Edition of 20, plus 4 APs
10 colour pigment print on Hahnemühle 340 gsm Photo Rag Metallic
Printed in the studio, December 3rd 2021
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Sheet size 28cm W x 28cm H
Image size 16cm W x 16cm H
In situ and in the studio
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Print Club News / September 22nd, 2021
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...I've been working on a new set of sculptural drawings, which I think are going to generate something of value, hoping so anyway. It’s a series of works that encompass a more angular feel, with crisp folds and coloured panels, that are redolent of origami, and folded paper structures. I've been progressing this strand over the past 4 weeks or so, and feel as though there's something of interest here.
The original drawings are highly complex stellated models, which I haven't yet been able to find a way into that satisfies the criteria I'm trying to achieve. But I have begun to realise that I can deconstruct the drawings, removing maybe 70 or 80% of the data in any one frame, and end up with some really poetic smaller studies, that I think may then work well as a conjoined longer image, forming some kind of folding edition with multiple panels. There are a lot of thoughts and ideas in play here that I hope to be able to resolve in some way, or at least make some kind of new composite to move the ideas forward a little...
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