Woodblock
Media Dimensions: 53 x 39.5 cm
Image Dimensions: 40 x 30.5 cm
Edition of 7
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Through reduction woodcuts, Charlotte Parr-Burman's work explores the intersection between photography and printmaking, with a focus on depicting often-overlooked subjects. Taking the early historical method of wood-engraved photographs as inspiration, Charlotte has developed a method to reproduce her own photographs in a reduction woodcut method. The final prints have a distinctive quality of painterly style mark-making with the photographic origins still present. The conflicting natures of the mechanical accuracy of the camera and hand-made marks gouged into the wood exist side by side. By exposing her own 35mm photographs onto plywood in the darkroom using photo-emulsion, she cuts directly into these wood-photographs, building up photographic tone through many subtle layers of ink. Charlotte’s prints generally have around twelve layers each and take several days to complete, she favours lightweight Japanese papers. Charlotte graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2023 with an MA in Graphic Communication Design, since then she has been continuing to work on her printmaking independently, and expanding her practice through travel and residency programs.
Woodblock
Media Dimensions: 53 x 39.5 cm
Image Dimensions: 40 x 30.5 cm
Edition of 7
Split your payment over 10 months with OwnArt 0% APR. Your monthly payment for this artwork would be £32.00.
Through reduction woodcuts, Charlotte Parr-Burman's work explores the intersection between photography and printmaking, with a focus on depicting often-overlooked subjects. Taking the early historical method of wood-engraved photographs as inspiration, Charlotte has developed a method to reproduce her own photographs in a reduction woodcut method. The final prints have a distinctive quality of painterly style mark-making with the photographic origins still present. The conflicting natures of the mechanical accuracy of the camera and hand-made marks gouged into the wood exist side by side. By exposing her own 35mm photographs onto plywood in the darkroom using photo-emulsion, she cuts directly into these wood-photographs, building up photographic tone through many subtle layers of ink. Charlotte’s prints generally have around twelve layers each and take several days to complete, she favours lightweight Japanese papers. Charlotte graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2023 with an MA in Graphic Communication Design, since then she has been continuing to work on her printmaking independently, and expanding her practice through travel and residency programs.
