Anya Gallaccio
Waxing Star (2026)
Edition of 40
Inkjet with 5 layers of screen printed varnish and 12 layers of pigment suspended in varnish
Produced by Counter Studio, Margate
77 x 61 cm (30.3 x 24 in)
Signed, numbered and dated by the artist
Waxing Star (2026) was created through an intensive, process-driven collaboration that began with the Anya Gallaccio's long-standing fascination with historic apple imagery.
Beginning with a series of studio photographs of individual apples – shot after Gallaccio arrived in the studio with a book of apple illustrations and a bag of fresh fruit – the final work combines inkjet underlayers with hand-applied, pigmented varnishes, and ground pastels mixed into the surface. The result is a subtly intricate print that foregrounds the handmade, with each impression carrying its own character and the tactile presence of the artist's process.
Waxing Star marks a rare moment of distillation: a print that captures Gallaccio's ongoing engagement with apples, process and material transformation, while acknowledging the challenge of fixing something from a practice that is usually in flux. Developed from photographs of individual apples and built through layered, hand-worked surfaces, the print becomes a snapshot of her wider investigations into growth, labour and the passage of time.
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