Splatter Mug Katie Dey Ceramic, gelli prints and silkscreen, 2021
Katie has found several ways to use printmaking with her clay-work. She uses underglazes or slips with silkscreens, impression stamps and gelli plates to transfer marks and images onto the leather-hard clay. The result is a beautiful layering of textures and colours.
What drew Katie to printmaking is her love of process. Printmaking and mark making are intertwined since the beginning. In intaglio printing, every mark made on a copper plate holds ink. Growing up in Scotland, Katie was influenced by many Scottish artists including Elizabeth Blackadder and Liz Douglas. It is easy to see Katie’s attraction to mark making by looking at the work of her other influential artists: Cy Twombly and Antony Tàpies.
Mark-making is one way for an artist to communicate their interpretation of their environment. The marks can be very controlled or energetic and gestural. Each artist has a different language through mark making. Katie builds a collection of various marks by scanning pencil and ink drawings, gelli prints and found objects into the computer. She often edits them to change size and contrast and saves them in a digital library. These elements are transferred photographically to the matrix - the silkscreen or solarplate. Katie finds the computer useful in the planning stages, but ultimately uses the proofing process to inform the final print, with an intention of moving away from the digital process and keeping the integrity and tactile nature of a hand-pulled print. |
Low Ebb Katie Dey Solar plate and Copper plate Etching, 2013
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Brooks , Katie Dey, Silkscreen, 17" x 22.5", edition of 30,2021
Thanks to Carolyn Howse from Hawk and Rose Press for the layout and design of this publication.
This project would not happen without the support of the CRD.
We acknowledge the generous support of the CRD arts commission for this project. |