Broken Arm
Catalogue #1400
Limited Edition Colour Print
Unframed
40 x 55.5cm
Limited Edition of 30
*Exclusive to Tyrrell Art Gallery*
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After a bad fall on cobblestones in Paris, my arms were x-rayed and I was treated for fractures in both wrists and elbows. I brought the x-rays back to Cambridge where I was renting an art studio space at St. Barnabas Press — a famous print-making studio. I was primarily a painter and sculptor and hadn’t done much print-making at that point but with both arms in casts, I wasn’t able to sculpt for two months so I asked if the St Barnabas Press Master print-maker, James Hill, could help me create a print from the x-rays? He did and duct-taped etching plate tools to the hand-end of my right-hand cast and I was able to draw onto the plates. I created a surrounding soft, healing element, resembling a cast on either side of the photogravure of the actual x-ray of the broken arm. We printed it in black and white and also colour.
£340.00
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