NEW EDITIONS
18 May - 16 June 2006
Peter Abrahams, Julia Farrer, Tom Hammick,Zara Matthews, Terry Smith

NEW EDITIONS launches a series of new publications by Eagle Gallery artists that include photographs, digital prints, edition variable etchings and woodcuts.
The works have been developed as an extension of the artists' wider practice and are published in short run limited editions or as sequences of monoprints.

Peter Abrahams' 'The Active and Contemplative Life' diptychs, combine two found photographs produced as digital Lambda prints. Each juxtaposes anonymous portraits of busy, self-absorbed people (taken in and around the City of London) with a more abstract detail of urban architecture. A prosaic moment of time in flux is counterbalanced with an image of continuous time.

Julia Farrer's prints 'Les Ponts Variations', are almost three-dimensional, reflecting the artist's fascination with geometry and architectural form. The works combine two surfaces - with a cut out under layer that is overlaid with a collaged woodblock, printed onto Indian hand-made paper.

Tom Hammick's four edition variable etchings depict an early morning shoot.
Hammick utilises a single drawn plate printed over different coloured papers to achieve varied changes of mood and atmosphere in the final images.

Zara Matthews 'Genome' studies are a series of digital ink jet images she developed towards a video work of the same name. The images are derived from assemblages and montaged photographs that Matthews has manipulated on the computer and explore the nature of individual identity and genetic multiplication.

Terry Smith's photographic works are derived from various different approaches to image making. Some, such as 'Curtain' are recorded as single, incidental found images, whilst others are developed as stills images from his film works. In 'Recycle' Smith arranges a number of 'street incidents' into a single work - a sequence of abandoned red bicycle parts show acts of deconstruction that a re re-configured as a creative gesture.