Ripple effect, No.2 [Print media]

Darren Bryant

Research Background Due to its hybrid, versatile nature and ability to adapt quickly to technological change, printmaking continues to be embraced by contemporary art practice. The combination of digital and analogue printmaking has introduced new approaches to 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. Further to this, examining how the use of both old and new technologies together can foster innovation in printmaking. Research Contribution The research utilises this merging of printmaking technology and interdisciplinary practice to focus specifically on issues of identity, nostalgia, memory, and loss. In this folio, digital processes used together with analogue methods and sculptural forms of paper folding are proposing new ways to re-contextualise source materials. Works in this folio combine process to form a hybrid practice, investigating the aura of repetition connected to the 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 outputs including jury selection in a national group exhibition called the 'Swan Hill Prints and Drawing Prize'.

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