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Dead Soldier Dreaming II Photograph

Emma Plunkett

Spain

Photography, Ink on Paper

Size: 15.7 W x 11.8 H x 0.1 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

This is a cyanotype printed on 300g cold pressed paper, toned with coffee and painted with red watercolour. A cyanotype is an alternative photographic printing process, like blue prints from architectural plans. I assemble them in a dark room, laying enlarged negatives and botanicals onto a surface painted with light sensitive emulsion and then I go outside and make a contact print in the sunshine. The paper is then washed and turns Prussian blue. I toned the print with coffee because I thought it would go better with the red ink I painted on the poppies. I was inspired by the wild spring flowers, after a long cold winter and wanted to reflect their beauty. The red poppies however, when taken from the meadows and placed in art, tend to already bring their own story from the battles of WW1. Going with this theme, I therefore titled the work accordingly. I can make a similar print again, though the flowers and splash marks will always vary, thus I see this image as part of a series rather than an edition.

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Photography:

Ink on Paper

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15.7 W x 11.8 H x 0.1 D in

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Emma Plunkett is a life long practising artist, known for her unique and expressive style. Her art often combines clean and vibrant fauvist colours and intricate pointillist details to create captivating and original compositions. From 1995 – 2020, Emma worked intensively as a VJ (video projection artist) under the name Miss Plunkett. Emma is of 100% Irish decent, born and educated in London. She has a degree in Fine Art from the University of East London. Throughout the 1990's and early 2000's, Emma put on events, exhibited her art and performed her live video mixing on the London club scene. In 2002, after short creative stints in Barcelona, Ibiza and then Amsterdam, Emma continued her journey south to the province of Granada, in the south of Spain. She continued to video project at festivals and party's, collaborating on a mobile dance space in an 11m dome, where she also created decor, installations. She exhibited her art on the Costa Tropical, Granada, Costa del Sol and in the local community of Órgiva. Emma ran the local art group, where she was putting on large group exhibitions in historically important buildings. Emma moved to Barcelona in 2020, where she now lives and works – concentrating on stoneware sculpture, video and oil painting. Emma has a life-long unwavering devotion to art. The underlying sentiment in Emma's artwork is about the female experience from a woman's perspective. Her work is ever evolving as she experiments and explores ways to portray the female body in a manner which is both genuine and empowering. Other themes include friendship, surrealist forms, painting views that she loves, florals, abstracts and single items from her life such as her bed, a croissant or even just a cup of coffee.

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