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Printwork (Photogravure, Letterpress, Bookwork)

Photogravure

Hybrid Prints

2009–2024. Photogravure intaglio over isolated colour inkjet elements.

Doll Suite

2014. Photogravures of greatly enlarged plastic and porcelain dolls in varying states of damage and decay.

Mini Prints

1999–2025. The small sets of prints in this collection explore a wide variety of subjects, content, and processes for entries in international mini-print exhibitions.

CMYK Gravure

2007–2009. Explorations with four-plate CMYK photogravure: a difficult and demanding process.

The Limestone Barrens Project

2003. Photogravures and 3-D views of the limestone alvars of the Northern Peninsula, Newfoundland, and Co. Clare, Ireland.

Arboreal Pertinacity

1991–2005. Photogravures documenting the struggle of trees surviving difficult environments.

Locomotive Torpor

2001. Copper-plate photogravures documenting small, desiccated creatures caught in full flight or mid-gesture.

The Gallery

1999. Portraits of Animal Aristocrats. A portrait gallery of compromised taxidermy printed in photogravure.

Bestiarum Excerptum

1998. A Bestiary Fragment – Excerpts from Medieval bestiaries, with letterpress and gold leaf on photogravure portraits of awkward taxidermy.

Single Photogravures

1995–2011. I set out to learn the photogravure process in 1994 with my partner, Marlene. We were told that it would take us seven years to really understand and control this complicated photo/intaglio process.

Letterpress

Ephemera

A random collection of letterpress projects, from bookmarks to broadsides. All made using a Challenge–15MA flat-bed proofing press.

INVENTORIES

1981. My first letterpress bookwork. Its production was an inventory of observations, autobiographical details, wood engravings, and technical printing methods.

Crown and Brim

1981. Crown and Brim, by A. N. Wlock, my first letterpress book as printer-publisher.

Bookwork

JAB35 Insert

2014. JAB35, Spring 2014 issue of the Journal of Artists’ Books. This issue’s artists’ book insert was a co-production with Marlene MacCallum and Newfoundland writers, Lisa Moore and Jessica Grant.

The Raven

E. A. Poe’s classic poem as a hand-bound miniature book with an embossed silk cloth cover.

BioBooklets

2018. Biographies of the protagonists in the apocryphal history of the Lyric Cranium Collection and Archive.

The Lyric Cranium Catalogue

2016, 2023. The Lyric Cranium ceased to exist after August of 2016, when it was dismantled and packed for moving. It lives on in the records I create, such as this small booklet.

Alpha & Omega

2013, 2023. Alpha & Omega features images drawn from a collection of almost three hundred postmortem portraits, mainly of children, that are part of the Hornan Post Mortem Portrait Archive which once resided at The Lyric Cranium.

Mapping the Bay of Islands

2011. Mapping the Bay of Islands is a four-volume collaborative publishing project with Clifton Meador (NorthWest), Pierre LeBlanc (NorthEast), David Morrish (SouthWest), and Marlene MacCallum (SouthEast).

Les Poubelles de Saint-Pierre

2011. A visual catalogue of the considerable variability of colourful garbage bin designs found throughout Saint-Pierre, the capital of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, just off the south coast of Newfoundland.

Album

2010. A re-interpretation of a Victorian photo album that examines the fading past and the missing dead, with a structure designed to allow the unfolding of initial and final enlargements of key images.

Book Structures

2010. Produced as part of Printed Matters: The Disembodied Book Made Whole Again, an experimental book-structure workshop in Corner Brook, NL with Scott McCarney in 2010.

DIED

2010. A pamphlet bound booklet that documents a detail from my visual impressions of a small Ontario cemetery.

BlackFlash Suite

2008. A nine page image sequence which deals with mortality, from the Autumn 2008 issue of BlackFlash magazine.

GAZE

2004. Limited edition hand bound bookwork with thirteen copperplate photogravures and letterpress.

The Butterscotch Pudding Pan

2000. A tribute to ma tante, Léonie Guyot, who treated me with puddings from this pan since the 1950s. Now I get to use it.

INVENTORIES

1981. My first letterpress bookwork. Its production was an inventory of observations, autobiographical details, wood engravings, and technical printing methods.

Crown and Brim

1981. Crown and Brim, by A. N. Wlock, my first letterpress book as printer-publisher.



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