A quick update:
1. I’ve spent the last 2 days printing my panels for my degree show piece. It’s a lengthy process and takes 2 people to set up and print due to the size of the screens I’m using and that they’re being printed onto canvas covered boards meaning the frame is set really high up and you therefore need someone to help hold it down as you pull the printing arm across! It’s really crazy to think that just a year ago I was only printing A3 pieces and now I’ve printed wallpaper, 3m long canvases and now a huge panneled piece! I can definitely see a huge progression in my work and it’s really fun with all the new challenges!
2. I have my degree show space, it is between 2 huge windows, in a really high ceiling room – it’s fantastic! It is exactly where I had envisioned my work right from the outset. I’m really looking forward to our group meeting for that room next week and finding out what other work is going to be displayed in there.
3. I’m going to be running a screen print basics workshop for a school so I’ve been trying out new techniques of printing that I haven’t tried before and managed to dig out some drawing fluid and screen block so I’m messing about with that at the moment. The school I’m going to doesn’t have any chemicals to reclaim screens and quite frankly it would be impractical and a health & safety issue to have such strong chemicals in a school, so I’m hoping that I can come up with some really interesting, creative ways to use drawing fluid, paper stencils and a few other bits and bobs.
4. Lots of photos of my work coming along at the weekend once I’ve photographed the prints nicely.
