DireTribe Gallery
1/81 Bouverie St Carlton.
11am-5pm Monday – Saturday
7-29 September 2006.
tel. 9349 1885.

Exhibition of large scale dye-line prints.

Companion show DARK, DARKER at Seventh Gallery 155 Gertrude St Fitzroy 12 to 23/9/06

Dye-line printing is an almost obsolete technology typically used for reproducing architectural drawings. Shadows are fixed onto photosensitive paper in a mechanised form of direct photography. Unstable in light, the prints eventually fade.

The dyeline machine used to print the work is an Oce 200, semi-dry, diazo-type. The paper is lime green in its undeveloped form. When ordering dye-line paper for this work I learnt it would no longer be imported. Many thanks to Simon and Freda Thornton Architects for the use of their dyeline machine for the last five years.

My dye-line work is primarily an exploration of its medium. Layers of translucent paper and tape are used to build tonal gradations.

DARK references works by Rothko and Malevich.