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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/independents-biennial-unsightly-
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SUMMARY:HeadSpace at EggSpace: Independents Biennial: Unsightly: Traces and
  Constructions\, David Ballantyne
DESCRIPTION:Unsightly: Traces and Constructions\, David Ballantyne\nThe Egg
  Cafe\, L1 4ED\nDate(s): 07/07/2023 - 03/09/2023\n10:00 am - 9:00 pm\n\nD
 avid Ballantyne: ‘Unsightly: Traces and Constructions’\n\nThe Egg Caf
 é\, 16-18 Newington\, Liverpool L1 4ED\nFriday 7th July – Sunday 3rd 
 September\n\nOpening: Thursday 6th July\n\nMy creative practise generall
 y involves working with paint\, mixed media\, and collage\, however\, the 
 work for this exhibition was created as part of a series of an ongoing exp
 eriments in print making. This was partly inspired by a change in my role 
 as an art lecturer to teach print and was initially a way of practising th
 e skills I was teaching others. This work is an attempt to explore print m
 aking as way of generating new images based on the themes which obsess me.
 \n\nMy work is inspired by subject matter that I have seen\, photographed\
 , and remembered from walks through the edgelands of Liverpool\, including
  failing architectural structures\, worn and vandalised surfaces\, discard
 ed objects and materials.  The work is also influenced by my affinity for
  the post-industrial landscapes of the North of England that I have lived 
 in and travelled through for most of my life. The aim of my work is not to
  reproduce this imagery by working from photographs and sketches\, but ins
 tead an attempt to remake it by tapping into the feelings it generates in 
 me\, drawing upon aspects of it’s colours\, surfaces\, compositions and 
 shapes. The use of unplanned and chance combinations of visual elements to
  generate pictorial surprises is an important part of the methodology I ha
 ve used to make this work.\n\nI have predominantly used collagraph printin
 g processes\, selecting found materials for their texture and shape. The m
 aterials are then cut and arranged into compositions to create collagraph 
 plates with an emphasis on establishing evocative juxtapositions of textur
 e and shape. Over time I experiment with colour\, ink quantities\, wiping 
 back\, offset and overlay printing. Some pieces go through a series of lay
 erings\, whilst others may be left after one press. I sometimes mask areas
  during overprinting which in turn produces collage elements for further p
 ictorial experimentation. Final pieces of work are often constructed from 
 sections of several prints after having gone through many permutations of 
 arrangement to discover outcomes which surprise me and have a required ele
 ment of independence from me.\n\nAbout the artist: David Ballantyne
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