The Gallery, Level 2: Abstraction
Print
2009 (made)
2009 (made)
Artist/Maker | |
Place of origin |
Peter Lawrence is one of the UK’s leading wood-engravers. Wood engravings are traditionally small, cut into endgrain boxwood and printed from the relief surface. However, the majority of Lawrence’s prints are engraved on Resingrave, a synthetic material designed especially to replicate the quality of boxwood. This allows him to work on a much larger scale. His work often explores concepts of mapping, and the visual language of maps, mazes and diagrams, as well as letter forms and typography. This print playfully explores the visual iconography of mapping and way-finding, and the ways in which these ideas are reflected in or draw upon modes of geometric abstraction.
Object details
Category | |
Object type | |
Title | The Gallery, Level 2: Abstraction (assigned by artist) |
Materials and techniques | Wood-engraving from 3 blocks of Resingrave |
Brief description | Peter Lawrence: The Gallery, Level 2: Abstraction, 2009 |
Physical description | wood-engraving |
Dimensions |
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Copy number | 24/40 |
Marks and inscriptions | 24/40 The Gallery, Level 2: Abstraction Lawrence 2009 (Edition number; title; signature; date. All in pencil.) |
Summary | Peter Lawrence is one of the UK’s leading wood-engravers. Wood engravings are traditionally small, cut into endgrain boxwood and printed from the relief surface. However, the majority of Lawrence’s prints are engraved on Resingrave, a synthetic material designed especially to replicate the quality of boxwood. This allows him to work on a much larger scale. His work often explores concepts of mapping, and the visual language of maps, mazes and diagrams, as well as letter forms and typography. This print playfully explores the visual iconography of mapping and way-finding, and the ways in which these ideas are reflected in or draw upon modes of geometric abstraction. |
Collection | |
Accession number | E.953-2014 |
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Record created | November 13, 2014 |
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