Visiting Artist: GW Bot
September 13, 2006
In this second half of the year our visiting artist is GW Bot, prominent Australian printmaker who has done some incredible things with the medium of linocut printing.
Bot is coming in one day a week to work on a limited edition artist’s book to be called Black Swan. The book uses three translations of a Russian poem about Australia by Konstantin Dmitrievich Bal’mont (1867-1942): English, Russian and Bot’s own visual ‘language’ (an example of which is pictured below, as linocuts ready for proofing).
The English text will be handset in Times roman (below), and the Russian has been cast on photopolymer plates, to be printed as relief plates on the letterpress press.
We are at the point of proofing the plates and text, and if all goes well, the book will be ready and bound by late November. The edition is expected to be 12 copies.
