EXHIBITION PREPARATION

We're moving ever closer to the opening of the exhibition  on 5th May, 'Lino I Know', so we thought we'd give you a brief update on the work that's been keeping us so busy.

Drawn plates

When Fán was asked to give a solo exhibition by Temple Bar Cultural Trust she agreed to it despite the tight timescales (asked at end of February, which isn't a huge amount of time to prepare, given that framing normally take upwards of 3-4 weeks).

Printing-lots of it

She began working on several new pieces immediately, and without wanting to give too much away, here are the drawn plates for the first piece completed.


The planning stage took over a week for this piece, the cutting another 10 days, and the printing seemed to go on forever. In total this took just over a month. We've included a picture to show you just some of the prints made in any give day - tired just looking!

Preparing the image

The next prints to made (yet to be printed) are the A3's, The Printing Rooms biggest prints so far. They have taken time, patience, some tears/tantrums, quite a bit of feet-stamping, and just a little bit of avoidance and a find-other-things-to-do-that-are-really-important... like washing-up, always loved washing up. In all, just to prepare to draw, these have taken 3 weeks - there are 3 in total. Here's part of the planning stage, just mapping out where each piece and part of the finished print should go.

cutting of plates, stage 1

Once the research and drawing stage was complete, was time transfer onto the lino plates, ready for cutting. A few days tweaking later, the drawings were on the plate, in reverse and ready for cutting. Cutting stage 1, about 3 days; re-drawing areas and cutting again, another 2. Several neurofen later, the plates are (almost) ready to print. And, ah, the printing part if another difficulty, as new inks had to be ordered, as well as some beautiful Velin d'Arches (a gorgeous rough 200gsm paper) for the actual printing, which has taken time to source and order and delivery.


So, wish her luck, printing starts tomorrow and we'll keep you all updated with progress and with exhibition imformation.