The Hepworth Print fair- touching elbows

It was really good to see that it was busy at the fair which means is a really good demonstration of how there is still a keen market for print and print based products. But while I was there I chatted to someone from YUCK print house and he was telling me about a bit more in detail about risograph printing and how it is cheap and you can create multiples cheaply and effectively to the same quality as screen printing. However there where restrictions as to the weight of the paper you can put in nothing more than 75gms as it will brake the printer so the final prints are not on the best quality stock but the quality of colours and line within the image is same.

I also spoke to Kate Gibb and William Luz. They where selling works they had created as part of a collaboration. They where a set of highly experimental screen prints, and they had a really lovely visual quality to them.

I spoke to Will more about the process they went through to create the prints and he said that it was a highly experimental process and that they organised the project as, they started off with spending a few days just making. Cutting shapes out , playing around with textures and colour see what works. Then after this they would evaluate the different piece they make and nit pick the best parts of the images and piece them together to start to make the final image. Then it became a case of just continually playing around with that one piece , the colours add more elements to it. The prints had up to 12 layers of ink on the and not all you can see. And you can feel this when handling the prints that the ink was slightly elevated off the paper because it was so thick.

I also asked Will how he found the collaboration process with Kate. specifically how both there styles work together. He said that Kate was really useful when it came to the experimental part and printing and that his part was more composition and the addition of the geometric shapes. He said that the collaboration work well because they both achieved something that they would be able to create individually. So for example Will wouldn't of had the experimental , playful element the Kate has so they each brought new elements into each other practise.

I really like these prints. They have a beautiful aesthetic and the value of the process really comes out. And when you look at the set as a whole they work as a series as some of the same shapes and textures are used in several of them even though they all have different colour schemes. But once they both thought an idea was beginning to be over done they will scrap it and move onto another.

It was a really useful conversation and interesting to see a way how the print works within a collaboration.

 Will's independent work.










Kate independent work.