Print of The Month: August 2020
Phoenix
Date: 2020
Size (cm - unframed): 72 x 100 cm
Technique: Screenprint
Materials: Somerset Velvet 300gsm
Edition size: 30
Since he started making prints at the studio last year, sculptor Jeff Lowe has been developing his portfolio and building on his innovative exploration into processes, materials and dominating scale.
Jeff signing his edition of Phoenix
In January 2020, Pangolin Gallery, London, exhibited a selection of Lowe's monoprints alongside small and large-scale sculptures. Jeff Lowe: In The Close Distance at Pangolin perfectly presented the visual parallels between his sculpture and work on paper. Where past work focussed on angles and heavier, more resistant materials, the recently exhibited works are a shift in direction. In conjunction with embracing more fluid shapes, Lowe seems to have focussed on a ‘lightness’ that is undeniably reflected in working with print on paper.
Kip & Jeff
Holes cut through the layered free-standing sculptures and these same ‘breaks’ appear in the prints. The malleable metal sheets are lifted from their grounded, cylindrical compositions to the horizontal figures on paper. These direct visualisations through print explore layers through transparency and allow the eye to weave between windows of floating shapes.
Detached from the foundations of its sculptural predecessors, the arched, winged forms within Phoenix appear to triumphantly take flight.
The limited edition print is available to purchase from the studio for £800 incl VAT. Contact us for more information and to make an enquiry by emailing info@theprintstudio.uk.
Amongst numerous monoprints, the studio has now published three limited edition prints with the artist to date and these are available from the studio.
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