About Hive / duality : singularity

I’ve been working on a new series of drawings called Hive. It’s currently unclear exactly how these studies are going to ultimately manifest themselves, but I suspect it’ll be as a series of large format panels, possibly in sequence. For the moment however, I thought I’d print a single, smaller component of the series as a new edition on paper, it’s a variation on my original Experimental Print Club edition.

I’ve been thinking about the nature and problem of working in a rapidly climate changing world, and how best to integrate that thinking with my daily studio practice, both as a series of reflections, which is a large part of what the studio is about I think, and as physical works that can create some kind of response to the concepts we’re being asked to consider, and act on.

Hive is of course the idea of a series of interconnected spaces in which a population can form a resilient community in order to thrive, so it’s a lovely structure to work with, both in that sense and in a purely mathematical and geometrical way too.

The idea of ‘duality : singularity’ comes from my current understanding of how I’m both enjoying the trappings of a contemporary urban life, whilst also understanding that we now need to rapidly change our systems to accommodate the scientific realities of the climate crisis. In so doing I feel as though I’m simultaneously living within two systems, a duality, one that is business as usual, and one that is trying to reshape our systems in favour of a new low carbon future.

There’s a lot of interesting maths and science involved in the ideas of duality and singularity too, for those who’d like to explore these ideas further, this wikipedia explainer is a good jumping in point - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_(system_theory)

I’m planning to continue working in this vein, and hope it may lead to some new ways of seeing, and maybe understanding, the essential changes that we are going to need to make over the coming decades. It seems entirely right that artists should have some agency in that thinking, perhaps especially at a personal level.

Hive images

Price and dimensions

Hive is a ten colour archival pigment print on 305gsm 100% cotton Hahnemühle fine art paper, cutout by hand and backed onto a sheet of 300gsm Somerset Satin.

The work can be supplied unframed, or framed and ready to hang. I tend to use fairly minimal glazed and painted or stained tulipwood frames, and float mount the work without a window mount. If you’d like to discuss framing choices to suit your space please do get in touch.

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Individually signed and numbered
From an edition of 48 prints, plus 4 APs

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Sheet size ⋅ 34cm H x 32cm W
Image size ⋅ 20cm H x 18cm W

Artwork only, ready to frame ⋅ £380 ⋅ Add to cart
Float mounted and fitted with a hand painted tulipwood frame ⋅ Enquire

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Publications /

12, an overview of twelve years in the studio

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