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shrew
Photogravure · Plate size 30 × 36.5cm · 2001
This new series of limited edition, hand-pulled copper-plate photogravures are documents of small, dried animal remains presented as fossil-like impressions using ink on paper.
The attraction to these fossil-like impressions of small creatures is greatly magnified by their animation. These creatures seem active, gesturing, locomotive. The gestures or implied movement of each creature contradicts their mummified state. The greatly enlarged scale allows the viewer to explore the minutiae of these usually unexamined specimens.
mouse aria
Photogravure · Plate size 36.5 × 30cm · 2001
Each creature is presented on a sheet of heavy paper, hung from specimen pins through metal grommets. The images are imprinted into the fibers of the paper in ink by a photogravure plate and echo the fossil-like nature of the specimen. In exhibition, the prints have been hung in various ways, this view from the Sir Wilfred Grenfell Art Gallery being one.
frog sprint
Photogravure · Plate size 30 × 36.7cm · 2001
silent warbler
Photogravure · Plate size 37 × 30cm · 2001
flat chick
Photogravure · Plate size 37 × 30cm · 2001
robin arabesque
Photogravure · Plate size 35.2 × 27.8cm · 2001
wool duckie
Photogravure · Plate size 36.5 × 30cm · 2001
aerial toad
Photogravure · Plate size 30 × 36.8cm · 2001
arrested flight
Photogravure · Plate size 30 × 36.5cm · 2001
frog tuck
Photogravure · Plate size 36.5 × 30cm · 2001
sandpiper
Photogravure · Plate size 30 × 36.5cm · 2001
squawking bird
Photogravure · Plate size 36.5 × 30cm · 2001
