Murze magazine feature

Murze is an online arts platform and magazine dedicated to showing the work of current and emerging artists. For their issue 10 they feature artists on the theme of Double Vision and Wildlife, some of my work, and an interview with me, can be found in the Wildlife section. You can purchase a digital copy of the magazine from their website, or a gorgeous printed edition. The interview and profiles can also be found on their website.

Look out for their artist calls to be featured on a variety of topics.

Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2019

I will be taking part in the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, November 7-10th. Billed as 'London's only Contemporary Print Fair', it promises to be a spectacular homage to all things print based, with hundreds of sumptuous prints by well-known and lesser known artists for sale.

A well as exhibiting 4 pieces from the open call, I was also delighted to be asked to produce a print for their exclusive editions, and have produced a new screen print for this! I have turned the two digital prints of North and South Circular Celestial Menagerie (see previous post), into a single screen print with north and south London celestial skies, featuring animals myths and legends of London. 70 x 50cms, in edition of 17. The print is called Celestial Creatures of The City, and is available to purchase form the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair here.

Celestial Creatures of the City screen print, available exclusively from Woolwich Print Fair. Copyright Anna Walsh

I will be exhibiting 2 screen prints and 2 digital prints alongside this, North and South Circular Celestial Menageries, The Stripe Set and The Pink Set. The fair is open to the public Thursday 7th November - Sunday 10th November, tickets approx £10. There is sure to be a lot to see so why not come along?

The Pink Set Screen Print

The Pink Set is an intricate 5 colour screen print of pink (ish) winged beasts, which will feature in my upcoming exhibition (see previous post for details). The exhibition will be a mixture of screen and digital prints, as I find each method works for different prints. The title of this one is a reference to the fashion world and its frivolous encouragement of discarding items for the latest fashion. The creatures in this print remind us where much of our creative inspiration come from, and that wildlife and the natural world should be treasured and protected for generations to come.

The Pink Set by Anna Walsh © the artist. 40 x 50 cms on Somerset Velvet 250gsm Antique Paper

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Lessons in Things, exhibition coming soon

Sea Monster Soup in Ecological Citizen Journal

Ecological Citizen is a peer-reviewed journal with an earth-centred perspective. It features a mixture of articles and artwork that refect the topics of discussion for each issue. My piece 'Sea Monster Soup' was featured in Vol 1, no.2, which included topics such as Biodiversity and bioabundance; Protection and restoration of wilder habitata; Animal welfare; Energy and climate change; Waste and toxics and much more.
 
The journal is freely available online, and can be downloaded/read here (Volume1 issue2 is the one I am featured in) .

See more about 'Sea Monster Soup' on my previous post  

The Stripe Set screen print

A new screen print I have been working on for a while is now available on the Garudio Studiage shop here. I had been looking at ways of portaying a group of animals with some visual similarlites - in this case ones with stripes! To get away from the formal  style of some of my previous previous prints, I experimented more with layering and collaging the images. Although the style of drawing alludes to natural history illustrations, the compostition and categorising are more unscientific.

Screen Printed on Somerset Velvet 250gsm Soft White Paper 40 x 50cms.

Images below show parts of the screen printing process.

final print, edition of 12

screen negative before being printed

Screen and final print side by side

Sea Monster Soup print

I have a piece of work in an exhibition 'The Thames The Artery of London' about the river Thames, curated by Plastic Propaganda, on at Devon House, St Katherine Docks, 4^th – 18^th December.

My piece is a 3 colour screen print ‘Sea Monster Soup’ 40 x 50cm.

This piece is inspired by the 1850 engraving 'Monster Soup commonly called Thames Water by William Heath, a satire of a microscopic examination by Arthur Hassell of the water supplied to the inhabitants of London portraying the ‘monsters’ found in a drop of water from the Thames. Just 50 years ago, the Thames was so polluted it was declared "biologically extinct", too dirty for anything to survive there. But  sightings of various marine mammals and other species over the last few years confirm that the river is springing back to life.

There have been regular sightings of harbour and grey seals, dolphins and harbour porpoises, and of course the ill-fated journey into the Thames by the ‘River Thames Whale’ (northern bottlenose whale )  in 2006.

Sea Monster Soup by Anna Walsh