feedback from print assessment.

"Very good commitment, enthusiasm a great approach to experimenting/playing.
The work has really developed but needs to be more focused and narrowed down. At this stage the work is very commendable. Aim for sharpness and clarity of ideas in future works."
Grade B.
Copy of my print statement:

The Arte’ Povera movement used recovered materials in their works and print artist Sehar Shah uses images collected through life to make prints. Through my renovation jobs I also collect and use abandoned materials.

The first piece is all about stories found in accumulated newspapers.

I’ve brought together an accumulation of portraits of people with the same goal in their lives and created what, as a group of people together, they were intending to create themselves.

The image is called “Explosion” and the portraits are 15 wanted terror suspects.

“We must erase these people from our world” was a headline above one of these portraits and lead me to the process of using an eraser to rub the image from the newspaper page and collect the debris onto clear tape and build an explosion using all 15 faces. Each piece of tape holds a different suspect. Closer inspection reveals subtle colours. Blood red, burnt black and green/brown earth colours all relate to the debris left after a real explosion. 

“Collective Individuality” looks at the idea of us all being exactly the same but completely different. The print is repeated over and over, made with the same face, but each has a completely different set of details, as do we.

Willie Cole does the same with his iron prints, which are all made with the same iron, but each print is unique.

The dispersion of the paint on the cloth changes with each application and slight differences in pressure, time and paint thickness gives each face its own distinct individuality. 

The last piece is something that grew from a set of electrical pylon prints and through experiments has ended as a sculptural piece in the same way as Eyal Gever creates 3D ‘prints’ where the pieces are formed and not restricted to the page. 

We worship technology and this makes us slaves to electrical power and

I like the idea of electricity having its own thoughts, breaking free from its surroundings and taking over.

'Explosion', paper, tape, erasings, 30 x 40cm.

'Collective individuality', Cloth, house paint, 120 x 75cm.