Printworks

Emma Mason Gallery

21 Lushington Lane, Eastbourne BN21 4LJ August 2025

Printworks explores the diverse languages of printmaking. The exhibition is the result of an open call where artists were invited to submit works that included some form of printmaking.  

Top: Works in show, at Emma Mason Gallery

Left to right: Future Fossil Gel print on archival paper, 12 x 17 cm.  Future Fossils & Broken Megalith Gel print on archival paper, 12 x 17 cm.

Both prints entered for the show emerged from my initial experiments with gel printing, inspired by an article suggesting that the fossils of the future may not be bones or plants, but human-made materials, especially plastic. Just as prehistoric handprints continue to fascinate us, these synthetic remnants might one day captivate future discoverers. To evoke this idea, for Future Fossil, I pressed a vinyl glove into the gel plate, imagining the resulting imprint as a hybrid fossil—part human, part synthetic.

Future Fossils & Broken Megalith features an image transfer from one of my paintings depicting the broken megaliths of Locmariaquer in Brittany. These ancient stones, whose original meanings have been lost to time, may mirror our plastic legacy: mysterious and unreadable. In response, I built up layers of marks using crumpled plastic bags, reinforcing the theme of disposable materials becoming the endurable artefacts of our age.