Erica Eyres: Monica

Erica Eyres: MonicaWe are proud to announce the first in a series of three new lithographic prints by the Canadian artist Erica Eyres. "I suppose theres just been such a change in the last ten years in terms of how women represent themselves in photographs. In terms of art, I have always been interested in using things that are traditional like nudes or self portraiture, but subverting them in some way, or complicating that. Its partly by using found images, and

magic and reason

The drawings and ideas that form the basis of these prints were created whilst offshore around the world

Her prints are a critique of the European botanical explorer and can be considered a hyperbole of 18th century natural history collections

this is one of two screenprints that were the results

my thumb and forefinger numb and white

It seems like they’re reaching out

signed and titled by the artist on pencil on the back

Although some have touches of screenprinted colour and one is printed from two blacks from different stones the overall impression is of fully toned drawings on a wonderfully sympathetic range of softly coloured hand-made papers from Barcham Green

including Aberdeen Art Gallery

Like many previous text works by Kenny Hunter

men’s magazines that you would get in supermarkets

such as allowing the audience to consume