12/18/2023 0 Comments Moku hanga actionA group of fine print students from NCAD in their final year, Sophia O’Sullivan, Helen O’Sullivan and Mateja Smic have made new work contemplating the processes, thinking, concepts and aesthetics of two artists work and practices. To show them together for the first time in this exhibition is a wise and courageous choice.Īs an addendum to the exhibition, Cló Collective is responding to the work of Simonds-Gooding and MacDonagh. The process, however, is labor intensive for the artist, who must undertake the roles of designer, carver, and printer. Wood, water, paper, pigment, paste, and simple carving and rubbing implements are all that is needed to make a print. Ultimately what makes this exhibition work is their shared aesthetic, a subtle palette and a ruthless elimination of everything that is superfluous to their message or anything that might seduce us from the essential. Japanese woodblock printmaking, moku (wood) hanga (print), is distinguished from other printmaking techniques by the simplicity of material involved in its creation. MacDonagh’s work has always been determinedly abstract while Simonds-Gooding has never abandoned an essential figurative reference but philosophically both women are concerned with the essence of print-making, the print as the mark of something meaningful, even if we cannot grasp what that meaning is. Between them they also embody very different attitudes to tradition and art history, one going towards it with the same degree of passion that the other avoids it. From opposite ends of the spectrum, and using the most minimal of marks, they seem to embrace a totality of experience that includes time and space. The primitive and the refined in the prints of Maria Simonds-Gooding & Kate MacDonagh.Įchoes brings together two artists from polar-opposite positions on the visual arts compass, Maria Simonds-Gooding and Kate MacDonagh, yet their prints sit very happily together. It is free to attend the demonstration, but as places are limited, booking is essential. This action unsubscribes you from the email but does not remove your information. ![]() Join us to see Kate live in action, and hear her discuss her mokuhanga (waterbased Japanese woodblock) prints in our new show ECHOES, also featuring carborundums by Maria Simonds-Gooding and work made in response by Cló Collective.Ĭlick here to preview work in the exhibition. Mokuhanga residencies in Japan - learn Japanese woodblock printmaking. Graphic Studio Gallery is delighted to announce that Kate MacDonagh will give a lunch-time mokuhanga printmaking demonstration on Friday, 26th of April at 1pm.
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