Artwork description:

Limited Series of 29 combined Woodcut and Screen prints.
Print no 12 on Fabriano Tiepolo Bianco 290gsm paper, and is presented with a Antique Mountboard surround size 30cm W x 40cm H .
Colours used are from my colour studies of the exterior of the Building on location.
Collier Street Baths is a Grade II* listed building, The Italianate brick building on Collier Street, was designed by Thomas Worthington, who is considered one of Manchester’s greatest 19th century architects.
When opened in 1856 by the Manchester and Salford Baths and Laundries Company it was used by 3,476 people in the first two weeks, and was considered one of the finest pools in the country. It was at the beginning of a golden age for public swimming and was used by 50,000 a year at its peak, Mark Addy one of the city’s most famous sons, who rescued more than 50 people from drowning, learned to swim there.
For decades it has crumbled and has been neglected in a forgotten corner of Salford. The laundry, boiler house, and chimney have been demolished, the pools tiles have gone, and the building has no roof. Yet McKay has found this abandoned gem a constant source of interest. His work focuses on elements of the building’s exterior architecture reflecting its palette, beauty and splendour.

Materials used:

Screen Printing and Block Printing Inks on FABRIANO tiepolo bianoo paper 290gsm