Charlotte Parr-Burman | Scotland Green meets Kemble Road, 2024
Woodblock
Media Dimensions: 41 x 54 cm
Image Dimensions: 30 x 41 cm
Edition of 12
Framed/unframed
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 black and white 35mm photographs onto plywood in the darkroom using photo-emulsion, she cuts directly into these wood-photographs, building up photographic tone through layers of gradually darkening black 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 from Artichoke printmaking studio, and most recently expanding her practice through travel and residency programs.
Woodblock
Media Dimensions: 41 x 54 cm
Image Dimensions: 30 x 41 cm
Edition of 12
Framed/unframed
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 black and white 35mm photographs onto plywood in the darkroom using photo-emulsion, she cuts directly into these wood-photographs, building up photographic tone through layers of gradually darkening black 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 from Artichoke printmaking studio, and most recently expanding her practice through travel and residency programs.
Woodblock
Media Dimensions: 41 x 54 cm
Image Dimensions: 30 x 41 cm
Edition of 12
Framed/unframed
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 black and white 35mm photographs onto plywood in the darkroom using photo-emulsion, she cuts directly into these wood-photographs, building up photographic tone through layers of gradually darkening black 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 from Artichoke printmaking studio, and most recently expanding her practice through travel and residency programs.
