Artwork description:

This is a silk screen print of an American freed from slavery who photograph was taken for the archive. The image explores the nature of photography, portraiture and archives concerned with history, slavery, black lives and highlighting areas of history easily forgotten or misremembered.

I am drawn to these areas of interest as I am exploring our collective history and the ramifications of the past on our present and how we still need to come to terms with the wrongs of the past, down in the name of progress (?).

The image has been created through a new form of printing using a form of silkscreen printmaking through everyday items found in the home, which keys into the way many of us worked in the past and currently during our Covid era, working from home during periods of lockdown and social distancing.

The print is starkly printed in black and white which is in direct conflict to what the image plays with, being that these incidences were 'never' a black and white situation.

Printing on 300gsm printing paper.

Materials used:

Net mesh frame, 300gsm printing paper, black acrylic paint, drawing fluid.

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