The Five

April 10, 2024

Sarah’s current work combines her interest in the built environment and working spaces with a use of collage which includes old print proofs, specially printed papers, photographic imagery and materials such as vintage book cloth. She makes these elements into pieces which she calls Print/Collages. Sarah Mander, April 2024 At the Quayside Old Dock  

April 7, 2020

Back in June 2019 I was in London to meet up with an official from the Center for Contemporary Printmaking (CCP) in the U.S. This was ahead of my residency at CCP the following month. I was to meet up with her at a gallery in central London showing some contemporary printmaking. I knew in […]

March 27, 2020

Alongside all of the interesting conversations on printmaking I had with tutors and fellow printmakers on my USA residency, perhaps the most important thing to come out of the visit was a book. Chris Shore, the Master Printer at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking, had a copy and recommended it to me. It is ‘The […]

January 25, 2020

Being in coronavirus lockdown mode with only a small print press for creative company can, in some ways, be a good thing. It has meant that I have had to be more resourceful and, perhaps, more inventive in the way I approach my image-making. Alongside the Flexure pieces I posted on back in January, recently […]

December 5, 2019

After my visit to Tate Modern last month and my resulting thoughts around how I might ‘escape’ the two-dimensionality of my art form, I have hit upon an exciting idea to try to make it a reality. One inspiration behind this idea is the work of artist David Rodriguez Caballero. In his practice, aluminium sheet […]