hand screen printed with water based inks and copper metallic foils onto 12oz cotton canvas

available now, stretched artwork, contact for delivery outside of melbourne metro : studio@spacecraftaustralia.com

Studio Backing Cloth Series

Instead of banks of computers our design studio has two 7m long printing tables at the heart of a cluster of spaces where the art projects are conceived, tested and created. These print tables are covered with a 12 oz canvas backing cloth to protect the layers of industrial felt used to create our preferred printing surface. Over time the backing cloth becomes saturated with daily deposits of print, colour tests, spills, experiments, doodles, arithmetic… After about three months the full 7m backing cloth is ceremonially pinned to the studio wall where it will stay until compositions reveal themselves from amongst the layers and fragments of studio history. More than any individual project, artwork or exhibition the backing cloth paintings record the life and times of a unique art studio in full flight.

Still Life / Chrysanthemum

The starting point for this new work is a 19th century glass slide, a single cell created for a magic lantern projector. The image, an everyday observation from another time, is a study of a chrysanthemum casually arranged in a simple earthenware vase. The quality of stillness remains in these new works, here time is suspended. An antique memory, Still Life seems perfectly tuned to the needs of our present; and to our future.