the other side of better 2021-2024
The beginning of this series coincided with writer Michelle Elvy asking if she could use a collagraph print for the cover of her new collection of flash fiction: “the other side of better”. (Scroll to the bottom of the page.)
Having worked with Elvy in 2020 when another work, Windows I, II, III was chosen for publication in Ko Aotearoa Tatou: We Are New Zealand, which she was co-editor, I immediately said Yes.
“the other side of better” became the working title for the series of prints I was making. In time, the name stuck.
June 2021, the book was launched alongside an exhibition of 20 monoprints at the wonderful @alexanderpiano owned by Adrian Mann. The evening was opened by special guests: David Eggleton, Tracey Slaughter and Diane Brown
The book and stories within have been described as 'innovative', 'darkly joyous' and 'breathtakingly honest and elegant. Prior to reading this, my aim was create prints that would capture: innovative, darkly joyous and honest. Working with natural materials like iron sand, palm ash, terra cotta and ultramarine earth pigment, the prints are nearly monochromatic except for a dash of blissful blue. They are stripped back to the honest, minimal elements.
When making these monoprints, I was thinking about time and the ways we count and consider time. When you shift from place to place as I have, you are constantly looking forward – thinking about the next place you will go. Time seems to speed up and slow down - one day, you stop and add it all up.
Many of the titles of work from this series comes from Elvy’s "the other side of better".
The beginning of this series coincided with writer Michelle Elvy asking if she could use a collagraph print for the cover of her new collection of flash fiction: “the other side of better”. (Scroll to the bottom of the page.)
Having worked with Elvy in 2020 when another work, Windows I, II, III was chosen for publication in Ko Aotearoa Tatou: We Are New Zealand, which she was co-editor, I immediately said Yes.
“the other side of better” became the working title for the series of prints I was making. In time, the name stuck.
June 2021, the book was launched alongside an exhibition of 20 monoprints at the wonderful @alexanderpiano owned by Adrian Mann. The evening was opened by special guests: David Eggleton, Tracey Slaughter and Diane Brown
The book and stories within have been described as 'innovative', 'darkly joyous' and 'breathtakingly honest and elegant. Prior to reading this, my aim was create prints that would capture: innovative, darkly joyous and honest. Working with natural materials like iron sand, palm ash, terra cotta and ultramarine earth pigment, the prints are nearly monochromatic except for a dash of blissful blue. They are stripped back to the honest, minimal elements.
When making these monoprints, I was thinking about time and the ways we count and consider time. When you shift from place to place as I have, you are constantly looking forward – thinking about the next place you will go. Time seems to speed up and slow down - one day, you stop and add it all up.
Many of the titles of work from this series comes from Elvy’s "the other side of better".
the other side of better: poster, review and collagraph print
