Pressgang – The Art of Printmaking

Exhibition of large oven gloves for this exhibition.
4000-year-old gabbroic clay shards were thin sectioned, mounted in resin and scanned at the highest magnification. At the heart of this particular investigation is a machine owned by Exeter and Cambourne school of Mines - Qemscan, a sophisticated machine providing automated mineralogy and petrography.
This scan gave me data on the clay formulation as well as vibrant imagery. After establishing the colourways I transferred the information in SMARTPRINT software and digitally printed onto fabric.
I then created a large paper pattern for the oven gloves, an exact 4x replica, cut them out, tacked them and machine stitched them.