2.30
Martin Harrison
Transmitted Light.
3.15
Steve Brown
The Physicality of Printmaking.
4.00
Coffee
4.15
Dana Zámecníková Way of Evolution.
5.00
Discussion & Close.
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I first became involved with glass as a material during a two-week residency working with Bullseye glass at the North Lands Creative Glass, Scotland where I became fascinated with powdered glass, the way it can be manipulated and its similarity to pixels.
My aim was to develop a process, which enables me to control the build up of layers of glass powder, with changing imagery and colours to produce physical prints. These prints do not rely on a background ‘substrate’ as support but exist as fragile thin, layered objects that have different sides somewhere between the two dimensional and three dimensional.
I find myself increasingly drawn to pattern, building up layers rotating and changing scale so that simple images become complex creating organic structures that start to grow and suggest a dark hidden vocabulary of man-made plans and motifs.
Having spent 14 years as a screen-printer in the textile industry I made the decision to undertake a degree as a Designer Maker at Plymouth University
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