Represented by Galerie Jan Dhaese, Gent, Belgium and One Mile Gallery, Kingston, NY.
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VINYL RECORD DRYPOINT PRINTS
I have been making various printworks using old vinyl records as plates for drypoint engraving – scratching directly on the vinyl surface and then printing the result. Due to the fragile nature of drypoint-on-plastic, editions are kept small (usually editions of 10 or less). The earliest here were printed in Burgundy, France after a summer residency in Paris at the Centre national de l’estampe et de l’art imprimé (CNEAI), in 2008. Prints from NSCAD (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 2013) and Villa Arson (Nice, France, 2014) were mostly pulled directly by me, and since 2017 I’ve been working at NYC’s Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop.  An ongoing series…

Editioning the In Virus Times print at Blackburn Printshop
November 2021
The first of two sessions at the Blackburn Printshop with master printer Andrea Tults on a drypoint edition of 10 prints (the plate is a 14” record mastering disk) that will match the one included as a poster edition inside my In Virus Times LP from @muterecords. Once the full edition is printed they will be hand-colored, signed and numbered 1-10. The image is based on an electron microscope shot of the Covid-19 virus. #blacknoise

Proofing New Black Noise Plates at Blackburn
May & July 2021

Spent two long afternoons back at Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop with master printer Andrea Tults proofing some new ‘Black Noise’ vinyl record drypoints, working mainly on ideas for a print which will become a poster with my upcoming LP ‘In Virus Times’ to be released sometime soon by Mute. A flower, a spiral, a Covid molecule, plus some other test plates (plates being 16, 12 & 7″ vinyl records at these sessions). Alway great fun to be back in a print studio. The May session was the first time either of us had returned since before the lockdowns began last March. These sessions were for proofing the plates I’ve been working on so I could see what was there when printed and continue working further at home before attempting some small editions.

 

Proofing New Print Editions at Blackburn
May 2017

 

IN VIRUS TIMES, 2022
drypoint on mastering acetate record
edition of 10 plus 1 AP print, with watercolor hand coloring

paper size: 18.5 x 23”; 47 x 58 cm
plate size: 14”; 35 cm
paper: Hahnemuhle Copperplate Warm White 300gsm
printed by Andrea Tults at EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, NYC

Based on electron microphotography of covid-19 molecule. An offset edition of 2500 copies, all signed and numbered, was created from one of the prints in this edition to accompany the first edition release of my album In Virus Times, on Mute Records, in 2022. There are 10 prints in the drypoint edition, each hand colored.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BLACKBURN PRINTSHOP NYC, 2021

Radial AP3 & AP3′ ghost print, 12″ vinyl records (30cm):
paper: Hahnemuhle Copperplate Warm White 300gsm
paper size: 21 1/8 x 19 ¼”; 54 x 49 cm
multiple artists proofs

Spiral WS3, 12″ vinyl record (30cm):
paper: Hahnemuhle Copperplate Warm White 300gsm
paper size: 21 1/8 x 19 ¼”; 54 x 49 cm
three working states to date

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BLACKBURN PRINTSHOP NYC, 2017

Large Plates 1,2 and 3, 16″ vinyl records (40cm):
paper: Hahnemuhle Copperplate Warm White 300gsm
paper size: 21 1/8 x 19 ¼”; 54 x 49 cm
editions of 8 + 8’ corresponding ghost prints

 

Small Plate 1, 6″ record (15cm), relief roll prints:
paper: Hahnemuhle Copperplate Warm White 300gsm
paper size: 12 x 9 3/8”; 30.5 x 24 cm
edition of 10 plus edition of 3’ ghosts, plus Artist Proofs

The same plate printed traditionally, one proof each:
paper: Hahnemuhle Copperplate Warm White 300gsm
paper size: 12 1/8 x 9 5/8”; 31 x 24 cm

another 6″ record plate (15cm), one proof each:
paper: Hahnemuhle Copperplate Warm White 300gsm
paper size: 26 x 23”; 10.25 x 9 cm

 

 

VILLA ARSON, NICE, FRANCE PRINTS APRIL 2014
3 VILLA ARSON DISCS:
drypoint on vinyl LP records
plate size 12”
paper: Velin d’Arches, blanc, 250gm2
paper size: 38 x 44 cm

 

 

NSCAD PRINTS • JULY 2013
NOVA SCOTIA COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN, HALIFAX, N.S.

NSCAD BLACK NOISE 1
drypoint and engraving on vinyl transcription disc
edition of 3
plate size 15.5”
paper size: 20.5 X 21 inches
paper: Stonehenge Rising

NSCAD BLACK NOISE 2
drypoint and engraving on vinyl transcription disc
unique proof
plate size 15.5”
paper size: 20.5 X 21 inches
paper: Stonehenge Rising

NSCAD BLACK NOISE 3A AND NSCAD BLACK NOISE 3B
drypoint and engraving on vinyl transcription disc
Each “A” print in this edition has a twin “B” print pulled w/o additional ink.
edition of 5 A and 5 B prints
plate size 15.5”
paper size: 20.5 X 21 inches
paper: Stonehenge Rising

NSCAD BLACK NOISE 3B #1
drypoint and engraving on vinyl transcription disc
plate size 15.5”
paper size: 20.5 X 21 inches
paper: Stonehenge Rising

 

CNEAI, PARIS PRINTS AUGUST 2008

Black Noise (2008)
drypoint on vinyl record
39.8 x 35.2 cm / 16 x 14 in
edition of 8 + 2 artist’s proofs
editions cneai, Paris.
Arches Velin Rives Blanc, 300g/m2

Infinite (2008)
drypoint on vinyl record
37.5 x 36.8 cm / 15 x 14.5 in
edition of 8 + 2 artist’s proofs
editions cneai, Paris.
Arches Velin Rives Blanc, 300g/m2