Second Sight
Print
2010 (made)
2010 (made)
Artist/Maker | |
Place of origin |
Nicholas Devison (born UK, 1966) is a printmaker who works with photographic and digital media. This print comes from "a body of work which interrogates and illusory and contingent reading of digitised photographic space. The images are realised through a very direct and physical process of monotype, in which ink is pushed through a large press to reveal a residual impression. These indeterminate fields of colour are printed in a grid matrix to from allusions to photographic mapping. The resulting contrast between amorphous data and exact location manifests a reading of space which is simultaneously fixed and equivocal, concrete and fictional." It was selected for the 2011 International Print Biennale in Bradford. Devison's innovative approach to print-making and his exploration of the potential and distinctive characteristics of digital print media represents an important strand in contemporary print practice.
Object details
Category | |
Object type | |
Title | Second Sight (assigned by artist) |
Materials and techniques | Photoscreen and monoprint |
Brief description | Photoscreen and monoprint, 'Second Sight', by Nicholas Devison, UK, 2010 |
Physical description | Portrait format print, with blurred black marks and a grid of crosses. |
Dimensions |
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Copy number | Unique |
Marks and inscriptions | Monotype 'Second Sight' N. Devison 2010 (Description; title; signature; date. All in pencil on the back) |
Credit line | Given by the artist |
Summary | Nicholas Devison (born UK, 1966) is a printmaker who works with photographic and digital media. This print comes from "a body of work which interrogates and illusory and contingent reading of digitised photographic space. The images are realised through a very direct and physical process of monotype, in which ink is pushed through a large press to reveal a residual impression. These indeterminate fields of colour are printed in a grid matrix to from allusions to photographic mapping. The resulting contrast between amorphous data and exact location manifests a reading of space which is simultaneously fixed and equivocal, concrete and fictional." It was selected for the 2011 International Print Biennale in Bradford. Devison's innovative approach to print-making and his exploration of the potential and distinctive characteristics of digital print media represents an important strand in contemporary print practice. |
Collection | |
Accession number | E.93-2013 |
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Record created | January 25, 2013 |
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