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John Ingleton
Much of my recent work has been part of an investigation into the possibilities available to printmakers through the relatively recent development of polyester plates for lithographic printing. Prints are usually created from a digital photograph which has been manipulated using a computer, imaged onto a plate via a 1200dpi laser printer, then hand rolled and printed in the traditional manner for lithographs – but without the acid.
Although the technology owes its genesis to the commercial printing industry its potential for use by print artists is firmly embedded in the historical basis of lithography; that oil and water do not mix.
My current work focuses on the transportation of Australian flora to France in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries which included such plants as the Banksia, Hakea, Melaleuca, Acacia and Eucalypt. By combining lithographic, screen, drypoint and digital printing on paper, MDF and acetate with etched Perspex I am able to construct both two and three dimensional work which comes together to tell a story about their environmental impact on a different ecology.
The following sample selection of John Ingleton’s thumbnail images can be clicked and viewed in a lightbox. That is to say, if you have JavaScript enabled on your computer a slideshow will appear, otherwise the thumbnails link to larger versions of the respective image. To close the lightbox simply click the Close icon or click in the dark area of the screen. You can begin the lightbox anywhere. We should warn you some images may be large so without broadband you could have to wait for them to appear.
