Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) Print Studio

Rackspac3

Suzi Clark, David McCulloch, Liz Myhill & Trevor Gordon

Location: DCA Print Studio, 152 Nethergate, Dundee, DD1 4DY

Open: Daily from 11am-6pm Wednesday 28th – Friday 30th August
          (Late opening Thursday evening)

Situated within the DCA Print Studio, Rackspac3 is a site specific exhibition
that will rotate over three days, hosting works by three differnt artists. Used
traditionally to store drying relief prints, this space will be transformed into a
space that will provide a platform for artists mixing traditional and new print
mediums, creating a visual narrative.

Suzi Clark – Wednesday 28th

“These works explore the relationship between the suns spectrum and the
human retina’s perception of text, colour and their refraction.”

David McCulloch – Thursday 29th

As Polish film director Krzysztof Kieslowski embarked on his Dekalog series
(1988), he was inspired by his own questions “Why get up in the morning?
What’s the meaning of life?”

For the past six years I have worked in series using intentional repetition in
a variety of media constantly centered on the word “remain”. I’m intrigued
that as a word it can be both ambiguous and suggestive. It invites me to
consider what remains, and in what I choose to remain. Working in this way
has helped me to explore what gives art and life value and how that can be
communicated. If someone found a meaning to life how would they share
that with others? Together, questions of worth, value, language and
communication have become linked and increasingly important in my work.

Liz Myhill & Trevor Gordon – Friday 30th

Infuenced by the landscape and our environment all of my work begins in
the sketchbook with drawings made on location, capturing a spontaneous
response to the atmosphere of a place and narrative within it. These initial
studies and notes are then resolved into more considered works in a variety
of media including lino-cut, collagraph and mixed media painting. I aim to
retain the vigour and excitement of working on location through all of my
work, often building up the surface of both paintings and prints through a
number of layers combining different mark-making techniques.

Driven by the urge to draw on location, to move through an environment
recording elements which I feel best describe the experience of that place.
I am fascinated by the intervention of man, our ownership and adaptation
of surroundings and the collections of personally significant objects we
accumulate. Through these we leave inicators of individual, social, cultural,
religious and political values in addition to practical concerns. Casually
absorbed into the domestic, urban and rural lanscapes and in turn concealed
or revealed during the passing of time, they present a record of self-expression
which hints at a wider narrative.

Associated Exhibition By Robert Orchardson, Curated by David McCulloch

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