Parkin Prize 2020

Dislocation I
1/1 Series. Paper/Image size: 830mm x 590mm. Hahnemuhle 300gsm and Abaca chine colle. Collagraph and chine colle

Dislocation I was short listed for the prestigious annual Parkin Prize 2020.
The competition attracted an impressive 482 entries, of which 76 were selected for the short-list.
The works were showcased at the Parkin Drawing Prize exhibition at the NZ Academy of Fine Arts (4 August – 30 August).
Each day of the covid 19 pandemic lockdown I made a small work with materials I had to hand, scraps of paper and discarded prints. My intent was to mark the character of each of 40 days. Dislocation I draws on the essence of those works with their restricted palette, scale, and relative patterns. Together the components can be read as single frames from a short movie about disruption and isolation.