Wormhole Exhibition
I had the buzz of seeing my work on display on Friday night at the Wormhole exhibition at Untitled Gallery in Coconut Grove. All was thanks to our hardworking tutors Matthew van Roden and Sarah Pirrie who did all the printing in the few days prior on the brand spanking new risograph printer,.
“The Risograph is a stencil duplicator. Think of it as a cross between screen printing and photocopying. The Riso prints one color at a time in bright, vibrant colors. It is ideal for posters, graphic prints, zines, comics, and other graphic arts.”
This is a whole new approach to colour and printing for me personally (likely everyone else too) so it was amazing to see such variety of works - and colours - on the walls. Most were printed with 1-3 colours. I love how my ‘Rages’ artwork almost glows - Matty called it “juicy” which I think is apt. I think my “Sélélé” print was printed with a combo layer as in the catalogue it’s noted as purple and blue, and in other prints there was red showing through (I’d originally stated for layers to be red, blue and teal with the aim to get some darker tones).
The ‘worm’ collaborative work was executed beautifully, with some surprising methods of combining the works, some repeating, others cut up, branching into dead-ends.
I wasn’t able to stay long but was so glad I did get there. I met a couple of other students and realised how much I do miss that community aspect as an external student, and how important it is to get to these events when possible.