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This month we are delighted to feature David Lemm as our Spotlight member. David has a fasinating process which sees him experimenting within screenprinting. More and more David is exploring the possibilites of printmaking and is enjoying printing onto and with various found objects and materials.
David was kind enough to share more about his process.
I joined EP in 2011. At the time I was doing a lot of digital work, so printmaking was a way of getting the work out of the computer and making tangible things. Whilst I still work across various disciplines, printmaking is now a cornerstone of my practice
I learned screen printing first and that is probably my go to process, although I’ve worked with plate lithography, linocut and enjoy experimenting with techniques like cyanotype and collagraphy.
Whilst I originally saw printmaking as a way to realise outcomes, increasingly I am interested in opportunities to experiment and build compositions more intuitively, embracing the tactility and process driven nature of printmaking. I like playing with different materials and I’ve recently been screen printing on wood and also on an aluminium clock face.
My practice is primarily informed by encounters with place, process and artefacts, and I tend to produce work as a series where I explore a particular narrative or experience. Most recently I have been responding to the terrain around Findhorn, after I was invited to exhibit at Moray Art Centre last year. I focused on the erosion of the Moray coastline and the structures encountered there, whilst considering broader ideas around the permanence of place.
I often begin projects with walking, and during walks around the Moray coast, I collected an archive of imagery and objects to produce the work, including roots, branches, sand, crumbling concrete and eroded steel. From this library of remnants, I constructed layered assemblages incorporating prints which highlight overlooked aspects of the topography and consider the environment as an entangled mesh of cultural and organic systems.
I regularly work with found materials, often reappropriating found industrial components. I have been exploring sea fastenings and have worked extensively with admiralty charts used in the oil industry. Recently I repurposed objects foraged from the Trams to Newhaven development, including a piece of track itself which I used to produce prints.
More information about David Lemm and his upcoming work can be found here:
https://www.instagram.com/david_lemm/
