VIEW IN MY ROOM
Australia
Printmaking, Lithograph on Paper
Size: 38.6 W x 24.4 H x 0.4 D in
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(duo-tone off-set lithograph printed on a Big Fag press), 2012, 62(H) x 98(W) cms (framed) My art is a tool for the 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. I depict, sometimes my own transient face into the scene ... (or) other faces, faces in the urban jungle ... alienated from nature. Combined, the Northern and Southern Patagonia Icefield are the largest areas of ice in the Southern Hemisphere outside of Antarctica. Data suggests that the Patagonian glaciers are indeed shrinking faster now than they did in the last century, with the rate of melting increasing 50% over the past decade. This print has been re-worked from my original waterless lithograph from my residency and exhibition in Buenos Aires in 2010 to this new version, a duotone offset lithograph printed on a Big Fag press. It depicts the face as/in the glacier: Patagonia. It also plays with the arctic warming/cooling controversy/ i.e. the fading/disappearing face/glacier. Also melting away are offset proof presses since the introduction of digital printing. The giant Big Fag press in Sydney originally by Swiss machinery manufacturer FAG ((hence the name) and also the name of the Sydney art collective) is used by select artists to produce limited-edition fine art prints. Big beauties like the Big Fag have been deemed commercially unviable all over the western world. They have been getting shipped to India or China, or failing such entrepreneurialism, to the local scrap-metal yard.
Printmaking:Lithograph on Paper
Artist Produced Limited Edition of:1
Size:38.6 W x 24.4 H x 0.4 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships Rolled in a Tube
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Ships From:Australia.
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Australia
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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