Artist Catherine Mc Cue Boes

Oh what joy, just received this in the post, opened it with all the eagerness of a child on Christmas morning, a big thank you to all the participating artists and to the Queenscliff Gallery, I love them all and will document and post each and every one at a later date.

Hybrid experimental printmaking. As part of the ongoing work for Girls Own, I am exploring another area of hybrid printmaking. I am beginning with a drawing, transferring it onto a lithographic stone. I will draw up the usual manner, but I will introduce a pre-digital print onto the lithograph. The objective is to create a work that will hopefully combine the texture of the drawn image produced in lithography with the texture of the lithograph itself. The success of this work will depend on the quality of the pre-digital image printed directly onto the printmaking paper before being overprinted onto the stone.                                                      Title NK bride wearing Kims boots 2019

As a printmaker I find it hard to accept that the only way is to be a purest, that is only use traditional methods and techniques to produce  prints. While trying to support my arts practice, I ventured into the world of digital and large format printing. Making a living from my art  was imposable, so I produced archival prints  for photographers and artists to support my practice .  I was fascinated with, this way of printing, so began my research into the possibilities of mixing traditional printmaking with that of digital. As a student at university  I was introduced to photography and loved it but didn't connect printmaking with the possibility of mixing the two together to produce hybrid prints until later in my career. One hundred and thirty kilometers from Eronmanga, south west of Queensland is a gas plant, where working as an artist in residence I was free to explore the landscape in and around the plant. The 'Steel landscape' is a work that evok...