ABOUT: printrepublik is the website of collaborative artist Brendan Reid
PrintRepublik is the website of collaborative designer Brendan Reid instigated as an interdisciplinary collaborative hub which has a passion all things graphic arts.Over the last five years PrintRepublik has been working with artists and designers from all areas of the creative industries.Brendan's day job is as an associate lecturer on the MA Graphics Arts at the Univerity of the West of England. His practice and collaborative research embraces all things print from old school to digital mediation.Recent shows and collaborations can be seen in the exhibitions and collaborations section.If you have any enquires feel free to contact us.
Building on previous collaborations with
PrintRepublik have been collaborating with contemporary maker Conor Wilson. Conor's ceramics have recently been selected for the Jerwood Contemporary Makers 2010. Conor?s work is featured in two important, recent surveys on international contemporary ceramics - Breaking the Mould: New Approaches to Ceramics (Black Dog Publishing, 2007) and Contemporary Ceramics, edited by Emmanuel Cooper (Thames & Hudson, 2009). His work focuses on "ceramics as a discipline as opposed to merely utilizing clay as a material" (Wilson, 2009). Wilson's previous series of works entitled "Desire and Control" produced between 1997 and 2005 combined qualities of natural form and machine aesthetics, culminating in a series of work which Wilson poetically refers to as ?biomechanomorphic?. According to Wilson one of the essential characteristics of ceramics is the combination of form and decorated surface. This makes it an ideal discipline within which to explore the conjunction of traditional, haptic technologies and new, computer-aided technologies.This open minded approach from Wilson led to an opportunity for a collaborative project between Conor and PrintRepublik. Just as Wilson had previously been interested in the combination of natural forms and machine aesthetics, the use of digital processes was seen as an extension of this mode of thinking. This allowed for an approach within this research which combined natural forms with digital aesthetics through the use of 3D scanning and digital processing software.
As part of a travelling show 2D/3D/2D curated by the artist Paul Thirkell PrintRepublik have shown "BOXVOXFOX" a sequential object which uses processes such as CNC milling software and 3D Printing to create graphic objects.A number of the works have been specially made for the show and explore the relationship between the second and third dimension in print. Such works include Katie Davies and Peter Walters collaborative piece that translates audio data from outerspace to create three dimensional shapes and two dimensional images. Jeremy Gardiner and Anthony Head?s piece however, is based around satellite images looking down to earth to map through virtual environments and 2D and 3D renderings an exploration of a section of the Dorset coast.
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