london: freshly pressed

i took part in a show called freshly pressed, along with nine other students. it was a four day exhibition on all methods of print making.

london: the show

the space was great! it was a sunny loft on the third floor.
opening night was a huge success, and it turned into a frenzy of buying that we hadn't really expected. everyone in the group sold something which was a nice boost.
here's our printing station. we had a bed for screen printing and also a relief press for live demonstrations and workshops. the clips were for drying, and during the opening we clipped up posters describing all the different methods of printing to be seen in the show: lithography, screen, relief, rico, and etching.
here's our "shop" where there were loose prints, zines, and the risographs we each made.

london: my group

here's some work by my group members!

london: turban

here's my primary piece for our freshly pressed exhibit (one's digital). i originally did an etching of the portrait using aquatint, intending to then screen print the color on top. when i finally printed it though, i was really disappointed with the results. that's the scary thing about etching. you can work on something for days and not know what you're getting until you're horribly invested. anyway i cut my losses and screen printed the entire thing. the reason there's so much texture is that i actually pushed gouache through the silk and got this weird weave. i actually came to really like it, and each piece is completely different. i wish i had photos of all of them, because some are better than this, and it's cool to see the temperamental results i got using the gouache. some came out almost creamy and then others more like this. also these were all printed at about 4am in my bedroom with the screen TAPED TO MY DESK as a hinge. haha

london: hair

for our print exhibition everyone in my group made one ricograph to be sold in packs of five. i had never hear of ricography until then. the logic of it is similar to silk screen because it works in layers of solid colors. however it's also almost like a photocopier because it's all done through a machine. the ink colors were limited at the time, so i opted to just print one layer. i would have done red, but they were out, so we printed blue, and for some reason i'm showing it in black... idk dude