Georgina Phipps UK
I am deeply affected by ecclesiastical spaces and have been driven towards notions of the scripture in my work. I believe there is a fine line between drawing and scribing; I envisaged myself as a modern day Monk laboriously annotating upon a scroll within the church where I had a studio for a year. Through casting and drawing the negative spaces within the folds and curls, I arrived at a method of depicting the movements of the tumbling paper with the drawn line. Over time, this became a process of meditation and focus which is apparent in the work. I concluded that the piece is embracing and proclaiming its Baroque characteristics by recording its own movements of folding and curling.
Recording this work through photography led me to experiment with the alternative technique referred to as Van Dyke printing which involves exposing the contact negative to ultra-violet light and produces a characteristically brown coloured print. I am now taking this one step further by producing images using lithographic drawing materials of a particular Cornish grave yard, which I intend to print using the Van Dyke technique.
email: georgiephipps@hotmail.com
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