Respost: Remake

Repost; Remake was the collective title of the work in my NCAD Works 2023 exhibition. I graduated with a B.A. in Printmaking, and as this project was a distillation of months of work both learning printmaking, and learning to make a full body of work.

My work explores the shared ownership and thought found in the visual language of the internet, and how it creates a unique, maximalist glimpse at the culture that will drive the population of a purely internet driven world. As memes continue to grow as the ‘blood’ of the internet – which passes between platforms, users, and borders – my practice continues to explore the deeper trends emerging in the worn paths of online culture. It explores how the simple jokes, layered references, characters, and more, all get melded together in new ways that are often difficult to parse.

My aim in making this work is to take all of these images, reassert my ownership over them in my personal choice and curation, and present it in a new context. I hope to help people re-evaluate the meaning, value, and ownership of images and their respective cultures.

- My statement on the NCAD Works page for my show.

The work itself is the combination of different elements and mediums: a plotter installation, 5 etchings made with the plotter on copper plates, and a risograph publication.

An image of the plotter from Repost; Remake.

The plotter was a central part of the installation. It’s linked in with an online service, that allows viewers to upload an image and have it redrawn by the plotter.

This allowed the creation of real life collages over time, which you can see below.

Composite of the plotter’s output.

Alongside that, the folling etchings were on display: - Never Trust a Wizard on his Casting Couch
- 10! because i do be lying a lot
- British lads hit each other with chair
- Portrait of an Artist at 12 Years Old
- Untitled

British lads hit each other with chair (2023) - Etching on Fabriano Paper.

These were a linear development throughout my time in NCAD, as I development my practice and my self. All of these were made while the plotter was being built and the tech developed, as a way of testing the plotter before the exhibition.

Portrait of an Artist at 12 Years Old (2023) - Etching on Fabriano Paper.

Untitled (2023) - Etching on Fabriano Paper.

All of them were displayed on a wallpaper, titled “Wallpaper of a well known wallpaper”. This was a somewhat ironic piece, giving (a recreation of) one the one of world’s most well known wallpaper Bliss, as featured in Windows XP, the materiality of a wallpaper. It helped set the tone and context for the work, as well as being a centrepiece of the exhibition.

Wallpaper of a well known wallpaper - Digitally printed wallpaper (2m x 3m).

The last part of this was a risograph publication, I don’t think we were made for this, a combination essay and visual collage, printed on risograph.

Check the shows page out on the NCAD Works Page.