SCREEN PRINT EDITIONS
Made in London, by hand with love
Over the past four years I’ve worked very closely with master printer Manson’s Press to bring both new and old designs of mine back in new iterations as short runs of limited edition prints.
The process for creating each edition begins by mixing the colours by eye from their base pigments to get as rich and enduring colour as possible.
Each of those colours is then pulled through the silk screen mesh onto the paper by hand, building up layers of tone until the design emerges. You can see the process in more detail in the videos below.
The results are a series of prints that are living breathing artworks in their own right. And once they’re gone they’re gone. I enjoy doing second, third or even fourth editions of popular designs, but they always have a different colour scheme or finish to make sure they remain genuinely limited.
Fail We May, Sail We Must
My most popular edition. Originally released in 2020 in honour of the story of how the late great DJ and artist Andrew Weatherall came to have the phrase tattooed on his wrists.
I took that old Irish trawlerman saying and applied it to the dual hemisphere structure of Renaissance atlases, creating my own allegorical scenes for the four elements in each corner.
WOW
This edition is based one of my favourite ever glass, steel and gold artworks ‘WOW’. Reimagining that piece as a 2D work on paper took some figuring out. But the results speak for themselves, with ‘WOW’ coming back for a second and third edition after selling out both times. The video below shows how the first edition was made in 2020.
RUN
Based on one of my earliest reverse-glass gilded artworks ‘RUN’ is one of more complex editions we have created. Two different tones of gold leaf, one of which has been directionally burnished interact with a halftone of black to really make the convex effect on the letters pop. Both the first and second edition are now sold out.
Hello Hello Hello Hello
This edition is made up just two high quality ingredients: 23.5 carat gold leaf and Plike Black paper by G.F Smith which has an ultra smooth almost plastic quality to it which the gold really loves.
The Sun
This edition is the first I’ve made in collaboration with Mansons Press that was completely analogue in its process. The transparencies for the silk screen were painted by hand, no computers were harmed at any point.
