Print Club News / 12th August 2025
There’s a philosophically interesting debate to be had around whether art needs to be made in a particular way, a debate that is getting shriller as AI moves ever further into our lives. Is the craft aspect of the making critical to the power of an artwork, or can an artwork rise above the technology of it’s own making, irrespective of it’s origination. Does a plate need to be inked by hand, or can it be inked digitally. Where is the line? I suspect that the dialogue will shift at both ends of the spectrum, simultaneously.
I think we’ll see a move towards more haptic making in the face of the AI revolution, and also a move towards more amazing, futuristic works that take ever more advantage of the latest toolsets. For the moment, it all seems fascinating to me, I’m trying to keep an open mind!

Print Club News / May 2024
I’m minded to write a little more personally here than I perhaps have before, and continue in that direction over the coming years. As I get older, it seems to me that the personal is blending with the professional, into some kind of singular existence that blends the art I make with my day to day life, in ways that become ever more inseparable. I recently heard success described as the ability to simply keep doing what you do each day, that success lies within the activity itself, not the outcome. That resonated with me!