Jack Kitchen | Transference 1, 2018

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28.5 x 38 cm

Unique Work

Jack Kitchen’s work explores the transformative nature of ecological transience, using specimens of Butterflies and Moths as a lens to create fragmented perspectives, implementing unique methodologies of Printmaking. The insects become medium through transference techniques separating structural colour from the wing membrane in direct monoprints, and forming new membranes as the base for /cyanotypes, Photopolymer Etchings and High Resolution Digital Scans; in the process of separation the colour takes on new forms revealing the complexity of their morphology. The fragility and transience of butterflies are typical in contextualising their place within contemporary art; however, Kitchen’s work aims to convey the perception of butterflies as a conduit through which the infinite complexity and chaos of the natural world could be observed in a new way. In July 2019 he completed an MA in Printmaking at the University of the Arts, Camberwell, wherein he focused on research into developing alternative printing methods directly using the materiality of butterflies, rather than purely representing them through print; this was significantly inspired by his work volunteering at the Natural History Museum, and helping to manage Butterfly Houses run by the Royal Horticultural Society and Butterfly World Project. His work actively engages prospects of an amalgamation of entomological and artistic practices; not only perceiving the physical beauty or complexity of natural form, but also attempting to reflect the metaphysical chaos found in natural abundance.