Natural Fabrication

Installation View - RMIT Graduate Exhibition

Details of installation

Screen print and woodblock print onto paper, handcut.

Dimensions: Variable

Constructed Naturally

Constructed Naturally

Screen Printed leaves onto various papers, hand cut.

Dimensions: 170cm x 84cm (Excluding Frame)

Same Same... Folio Exchange

My Specimens... 

A little bit about this project.
Each leaf was relief printed in black onto acetate. These acetate prints were then used as positives for screen printing. I exposed all my leaves onto a screen and printed it three times. Once on fluoro orange cardboard, once on brown paper and once onto purple plastic.

The image above is a photo of all my leaves before they were distributed for the exchange folios. Each participant of the exchange was given one orange, one brown and one purple printed leaf - chosen randomly. Each participant received a completely unique set of prints and each print had its own specimen number.
   

Only Natural - Platform Arts Space

Only Natural 

Platform Art Space, Melbourne

Only Natural

So, I've officially submitted all my work to complete my 2nd year of uni. How happy am I to have the past 8 months behind me! It has been a year of low motivation, low energy, forced ideas and a whole lot of questioning what I'm doing. Despite all of that, I'm actually really happy with the 2 projects I've managed to completed.

Only Natural

Detail - left

Detail - right 

I loved working with the fluro colours! It was such a nice change from the natural colours I'd spent the majority of the semester using. I had fun with these colours and can't wait to use them again. I'd originally wanted to use brighter colours found from nature, but the saturated, chemical feel of the fluro worked so much better.

I love that the colour printed on the back of the cutouts reflected onto the white wall. I wasn't expecting that to happen but it was a pleasant surprise on an otherwise hectic day of installing.