While exploring the Women’s Art Library, particularly the Women of Colour Index Group Art Shows, I came across a folder on “Community CopyArt.” Looking through the pamphlets and posters, I learnt that Community CopyArt was founded in 1983 with a grant from the Greater London Council (GLC), as an arts collective located in Kings Cross. You’ll find the exhibition in Buchi Emecheta Space at Goldsmiths Library Second Floor, 20th July – 8th October 2021. The prints range from an estimate of $2000 to $5,000 which might seem expensive for a xerox copy, seems like a great deal for a David Hockey print.Visit Photocopying Yourself into History, an exhibition which gives insight into the organisation, Community CopyArt, and Rita Keegan’s practice. ![]() Hockey’s Home Made Prints series is offered in Contemporary Edition Christie’s online sale, through July 17. Even if you take the same subject, if you draw it in a different way, or if you are forced to simplify it - to make it bold because it is too finicky - I like that.” I think mediums can turn you on, they can excite you they always let you do something in a different way. ![]() So I’ve taken an interest in any technology to do with image-making: printing, cameras, reproduction itself. I’ve always been interested in printing as a medium, and also as a medium through which my work can be known - can reach a public. I realised it was a printing machine and a camera of a new kind. “My interest in the machine was philosophical really. Once one colour has been completed, the printed sheets are loaded back into the machine and a sheet with another, separate colour is placed on the copy bed.īut the way Hockney utilised the copy machine is unique. That colour is then printed onto each sheet of the edition. Each colour is drawn onto a separate sheet of paper. Printing with the copy machine is similar to a traditional print. In fact, this is the closest I’ve ever come in printing to what it’s like to paint: I can put something down, evaluate it, alter it, revise it, all in a matter of seconds.“ How you’re continually having to interrupt the process of creation from one moment to the next for technical reasons.īut with these copying machines, I can work by myself - indeed you virtually have to work by yourself there’s nothing for anyone else to do - and I can work with great speed and responsiveness. It’s an exciting process, but I’ve always been bothered by the lack of spontaneity: how it takes hours and hours, working alongside several master craftsmen, to generate an image. “ Over the years I’ve made a lot of prints working with several different master printshops. In February of 1986, Hockney began using a friend’s copy machine and he discovered right away it was, in fact, a new type of printing machine. Anybody who draws will enjoy that sort of variety of graphic medium: because it requires inventiveness.“ But get an etching plate, it’s all about fine lines. You don’t make tiny, thin lines in a linocut, it would be too niggly. ![]() ![]() In linocuts, for example, everything has to be bold. I’m not a mad technical person, but anything visual appeals to me. “ Anyone who likes drawing or mark-making would like to explore new media. In the 80s, a new technology got him to experiment with a new technique. Photo collage self-portrait by Hockey, circa ’82 David Hockney began his printmaking career in 1954 as a student at the Bradford College of Art.
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