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Little boy [Print media]
2009
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Abstract
4 colour silkscreen print, blind embossing, mixed media, unique state 54 x 79cm
Research Background
Contemporary Printmaking has seen how advances in digital technologies have offered new approaches to previous traditional printmaking processes. The combination of digital and analogue printmaking has changed the medium, allowing for simultaneous difference and similarity within the print to occur.
The focus of this research is on how merging these technologies explores the process of variation through replication and questions the concept of the original print in relation to the multiple. The research exploits the power of variation in reproductive methodologies to develop auratic encounter with personal archives as a form of self-expression.
Research Contribution
The research utilises this merging of analogue and digital technology to focus specifically on issues of identity connected to inherited stereotypes and myths. In this body of work, digital processes used together with analogue methods propose new ways to re-contextualise and understand personal archives seductively played into my own childhood imagination as symbols of Australian masculinity. Works in this folio combine traditional print process and new technology to form a hybrid practice, investigating inherent tensions of print process and imagery utilised.
Research Significance
The significance of this research is in its examination of a range of approaches to printmaking in which ideas are allied to process and technique, resulting in hybrid practice. Its excellence is evidenced by.
1) Inclusion in several peer-reviewed group shows, including
2014: Kyoto Hanga: International Print Exhibition Japan and Australia. Metropolitan Art Museum of Tokyo, Kyoto Municipal Museum, & Fukuyama Art Museum, Japan.
2014-2010: in [two art], Couples in Australian Art, Gallery Tour of Australia.
2010-2009: Stories of our making: contemporary prints from Australia, IMPACT 5, UWE, Bristol, England, UK. Tweed River Art Gallery, NSW.
2) Acquired into the following collections, including
State Library of Victoria, Print Council of Australia, University of Western Sydney, John Curtin University, University of Wollongong, University of Ballarat, The Art Vault-Mildura, City of Bayule, Artistspace Mackay, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Gladstone Regional Art Gallery, and Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery.
3) Representation of the work in several peer reviews in journals and catalogues, including
Anne Kirker, Empowering the Miniature, (ex. cat. Lismore Regional Art Gallery, NSW, Australia, 2013): 1&2.
Joseph Eisenberg, in [two art], The Agapitos/Wilson Annual, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Australia, (2010): 11,12,30 &31.
Jan Davis, Miniature marvels, Printmaking Today, Cello Press, Vol.18, No.3, England, (2009): 11.
Jan Davis, Susi Muddiman, stories of our making: contemporary prints from Australia, (ex.cat. Tweed Regional Art Gallery & University West of England, Bristol, Australia, 2009): 3&5.
Other Notes - Artist Statement
The screenprint titled ‘little boy’ explores and questions ideas about social, cultural, and historical inherited gender stereotypes. This screen print, sourced from a toy model plane box, shows an image of a young boy happily clutching his toy, Enola Gay. I find the image menacing, somehow glorifying male stereotypes of power and might. I further draw attention to this, with the play of words in the title, referring to and questioning the naming of such a powerful and destructive weapon ‘little boy’. This screenprint presented in the form of a portrait advertisement tries to subvert the constant stream of messages aimed at gender conditioning behaviour. The significance of this research is that it references the cut and paste graphics of magazines combined with screenprinting and colour separation. Darren Bryant 2009.
Details
- Title
- Little boy [Print media]
- Creators
- Darren Bryant - Southern Cross University, Creative Arts
- Publisher
- Lismore, Australia
- Format
- Screenprint with embossing
- Identifiers
- 991013166813702368
- Copyright
- © Darren Bryant, 2009
- Academic Unit
- Creative Arts; Faculty of Business, Law and Arts
- Resource Type
- Other creative works; Print media