Artist Catherine Mc Cue Boes

Another version: War Games 16 etchings, Color and b/w etchings, soft ground and dry point. Housing: Hard cover in black book cloth with handmade marbled paper, red ties with bullet casing, double concertina artist book. Unique 1987 Part of the Boys toys series that started in 1987. Watching my son playing with toy soldiers lets to a body of work that reflects the destructive nature of boys and their toys. Does this sound like someone you know?

Catherine Mc Cue, Artist Statement WAR Games 2016 Its strange how first encounters stay with you forever. As a young girl growing up in a family with little interest in the arts my first encounter with images came from my magic lantern slides given to me by my grandmother. The slides where such a rich source of imagery and topics that I enjoyed them still. War Games, for children is one such set of slides, re invented and created as a boxed set,  complete with artist book and contemporary slides.  Materials used include, solar plate etching, embossed linocut, collage slides and text. I started to redraw the images to set the scale and size I needed for the slides, these will be re worked and printed onto clear film, then mounted and framed. When happy,  I reworked the images using Photoshop, to add  textured and noise.  As these would be printed out as transparencies the correct size for the solar plates, it was importan...

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