Alongside several regional printmakers, Satinder Parhar was recently given the opportunity to use a Victorian Era press from 1810 as part of IKON Gallery’s Start the Press! show. The press was loaned from the University of Wolverhampton to the Gallery for their 60th Anniversary year. Between the 9th February and 21st April each participating printmaker partook in a 3 day residency, which was immediately followed by an exhibition of the works created. This was displayed alongside works loaned by the Jerwood Collection. These artists included the likes of David Hockney, Lubaina Himid, Catherine Yass, Yinka Shonibare, and prints by Pamela Scott Wilkie.
The concept behind the piece is to display the viewer’s relationship with the space they interact with. Places such as tunnels, caves, and fissures create an intervening space, called an ‘interstice’. Satinder’s work questions the relationship between the space, the form, and the “object.” It examines the structures, the interstitial spaces formed within, and its relationship with the viewer; What is this connection and why is it so harmonious? Satinder’s use of black and white emphasises the disparity between the interstice and interstitial space. The two colours oppose each other, yet work together.
His use of drypoint as a medium allows him to develop an array of tones, which subsequently creates depth within the work. This depth and the vast size of the prints immerses the viewer in this re-representational space.
Learn more about Start the Press! here.
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