500 x 700mm
6 x colour hand-pulled silkscreen print.
Printed with archival inks on Somerset Satin 300gsm
Edition No. : 50
The work attempts to visualise the current state of uncertainty we are all experiencing. The image depicts an abstracted figure set within a dramatic, fragmented composition of glass textures and halftone graphic forms.
The piece takes its inspiration from William Butler Yeat’s poem The Second Coming and Oliver Sheppard’s sculpture The Death of Cúchulainn.
The Centre Cannot Hold was created over a period of two months with master printer Liam Gough at Damn Fine Print, Dublin. The print employs a number of different silkscreen printing techniques: overprinting, a variety of different halftone weights and diffusion dither. These layered processes give extra tonal and textural depth to the work.
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