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Afterglow 3 (blue and silver) Print - Limited Edition of 1

Christopher Newman

Australia

Printmaking, Screenprinting on Paper

Size: 27.9 W x 22.6 H x 1 D in

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from the exhibition Afterglow at La Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, 2012 As an alienated outsider surviving in a harsh urbscape, I came to Paris a stranger, but left feeling that I had glimpsed a little of the secret Paris behind the harsh lines of the Haussmann boulevards, an inner Paris of anarchic artists, ragged medieval buildings, a rich history of struggle and conflict, and a tenderness shown in fine traditions of humanism. In an attempt to recapture or at least recall the feelings this inner Paris evoked, I used the afterglow effect of a sunset, employing subtle shades and an almost ghostlike effect, with an edgy, mysterious feeling, difficult to name, which can only be felt. I used moiré patterns like images from a halftone photo to stress movement and mystery. An old Renault approaches, like my life in Paris approaching, or the city's past - Apaches still dancing under the river bridges, a wild, Gallic heart, creative and vibrant. In this exhibition of new screen-prints by Australian artist-in-residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts, I explore the afterglow of my residency in Paris, historical layering, memory and changing times. Fusing a late 30's Parisian scale-model with the environment of the early 60's architecture and interiors at the Cité Internationale de Arts and maps, I play with changing scales, time, light and places, using historical layering and cross-referencing, evoking a dream-like film-noir mystery with late 30's police cars exploring time-changing Parisian streets from the late 30's to the 60's to today

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Printmaking:Screenprinting on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:1

Size:27.9 W x 22.6 H x 1 D in

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CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (b. 1970, Port Macquarie, Australia) Printmedia artist/ printmaker and Graphic Designer, Newman studied at UTS (University of Technology, Sydney) attaining a Bachelor of Design (Visual Communication), studied printmaking at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney (Printmedia), and Wollongong University's Faculty of Creative Arts, from where he obtained his Masters. He is currently also training at COFA (College of Fine Arts), UNSW (University of NSW). His technique reflects this substantial training. Recent significant artistic milestones include two very successful art residencies and exhibitions in Paris and in Buenos Aires, the former at Proyecto'Ace in Buenos Aires, the later at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. Newman been selected for prestigious art awards and prizes such as the International Print Triennial - Krakow, Fremantle Print Awards, Albury Art Prize, Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award, National Print Prize Australia and has been shown and collected by the Australian Embassy in Buenos Aires, purchased by Tweed River Gallery, Australia, in private collections in Australia and overseas. Newman has also worked for many years as a graphic designer and art director for various magazines and newspapers, such as art-directing Australian T3 magazine and graphic design in the art department for The Daily Telegraph and The Australian newspapers. He has worked as a compositor and line-tester in the animation industry in Australia and in London, on various animated ABC and BBC television series and on the animated Australian feature film, The Magic Puddding. Clem Gorman wrote in a review of his exhibition "La cara terrestre: Argentina" in Buenos Aires: "Newman states, in his program notes: "My art is a tool for revival of nature and tradition, a plea for humans to live in harmony with the land, and to identify the transient Outsider's relationship with urbanity." The exhibition is called La Cara Terrestre: Argentina (the "˜alien' face in the land: Argentina), and depicts, he says: "sometimes my own transient face into the scene ... (or) other faces, faces in the urban jungle ... alienated from nature.

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