UWE MINIATURE PRINT COMPETITION 

" You can't spend the rest of your life crying. It annoys people in the movies " Oscar Madison - The Odd Couple

5th November 2015

OMG! My work won the UWE miniature print poster and e-card design competition.
I never come first, even at birth my twin sister squeezed past me, therefore was I so excited for this piece to have been chosen.

The idea originated from a series of Ektachrome and Kodachrome holiday slides circa 1961 which I scanned and digitally manipulated in photoshop and indesign. Firstly converting it into a combination of a layered colour halftone keeping a section of the original and then saving the images as artwork (pdf format and jpeg). The final image has also been replicated as a four colour separation silkscreen print minus the type which is much more textural. 

I absolutely love the vibrancy of Kodachrome colour; the unreality of it, like an ice lolly bursting with E numbers or a postcard of Weston super mare from the 1970s (the green too green, the yellow like egg yolk... to perfect to be real) and the dot structure of the digital halftone - with the moire effect enhancing the textural quality of each print.

I have been inspired by this media and by the idea of pre-printed material from the 20th century, particularly from the 1960s and 70s, which is evocative of home, childhood; nostalgic reminiscences using both film and photographic imagery. I am in the process of producing a series of A5 'retro' four colour silkscreen mini-prints taken from moving, photographic and slide image formats with reference to 'family' and 'found'.

 

Movie still taken from 'The Odd Couple' 1968
director Gene Saks based on the 1965 play by Neil Simon

UWE MINIPRINT DISPLAY

ARNOLFINI BOOKSHOP

3rd December 2015