Prints of the Month: February 2020

Peter Randall-Page RA, Tarantella I & II

Date: 2016
Size (cm - unframed): 78.5 x 78
Technique: Screenprint
Materials: Hahnemule Natural 300gsm
Edition size: 40

Peter Randall-Page RA is best known for his stone sculptural work, but over the course of his career the artist has also gained reputation surrounding his application to drawing and printmaking. Work to date has explored a process of combining principles of arrangement with an element of randomness. The artist’s fundamental interest lies in how we react to particular forms and what makes them significant with pattern and variation present also in his works on paper.

Tarantella I & II were produced at The Print Studio in 2016 for our Print Collectors Club, Daedalus. The titles and gestural marks both make reference an energetic dance and spider-like symbols - the patterns in this case making associations with scripts, language and historical writing systems. Both prints were also exhibited as part of the RA Summer Exhibition 2016 (pictured above) and at Zillah Bell Gallery as part of the Original Print Show curated by Norman Ackroyd RA.

Produced in an edition of 40, copies of the diptych are available for £750 each or £1200 for the pair + VAT and shipping within the U.K. For shipping outside the U.K. and to enquire, please contact the Studio at info@theprintstudio.co.uk

Pattern and geometry within organic forms heavily influence the work of Randall-Page. Many of the artist’s works directly reference structures from nature, a particular example being his monumental ‘Seed’ sculpture which was planted at ‘The Core’ building of the Eden Project, Cornwall in 2007. An influence made upon collaboration with the architects draws an association with the Fibonacci sequence and its formulaic spiral seen within pinecones, sunflower heads and many other botanical examples. Two pieces of Randall-Page’s sculpture can be found locally in Cambridge including ‘Between the Lines’ (2007).