The Newcastle Arts Centre is pleased to invite you to a very special retrospective exhibition,
’40 Years at the Cutting Edge’ by Chris Penn.
Chris Penn is a renowned printmaker who specialises in the rare skill of copperplate engraving. Her subject matter is as diverse as the media she chooses to work in. Her engravings include a finished version of Albrecht Durer’s ‘Unfinished Crucifixion’ and her lino-cuts, pyrographs and painted wooden sculptures range from the traditional to her more hard hitting leftfield personal and political works.
Penn on her output;
“Looking back over forty years of continuous art production, the human form wins hands down! The medium, from large black and white engravings on lino, through hand-coloured copper engraving, to carved and painted wood is ever-changing but the subject, the human being, has remained the centre of each creation.
….Every emotion, political belief, religious ideal, can be expressed most poignantly using the human form as a scaffold, and if looked at carefully, much more can be communicated than by the written word.
…The art of engraving is in danger of extinction. No longer taught in art colleges, its painstaking technique is out of step in an age of split second throwaway images. Some of my engravings have as many as forty different motifs hand carved into a single copper sheet and the prints taken from them will respond to careful and repeated study.�
This exhibition is at Newcastle Arts Centre from the 2nd of August and will run until the 29th. The opening times are 9 am to 5 pm Monday to Saturday, admission is free.
Chris Penn exhibition at Newcastle Arts Centre
The Newcastle Arts Centre is pleased to invite you to a very special retrospective exhibition,
’40 Years at the Cutting Edge’ by Chris Penn.
Chris Penn is a renowned printmaker who specialises in the rare skill of copperplate engraving. Her subject matter is as diverse as the media she chooses to work in. Her engravings include a finished version of Albrecht Durer’s ‘Unfinished Crucifixion’ and her lino-cuts, pyrographs and painted wooden sculptures range from the traditional to her more hard hitting leftfield personal and political works.
Penn on her output;
“Looking back over forty years of continuous art production, the human form wins hands down! The medium, from large black and white engravings on lino, through hand-coloured copper engraving, to carved and painted wood is ever-changing but the subject, the human being, has remained the centre of each creation.
….Every emotion, political belief, religious ideal, can be expressed most poignantly using the human form as a scaffold, and if looked at carefully, much more can be communicated than by the written word.
…The art of engraving is in danger of extinction. No longer taught in art colleges, its painstaking technique is out of step in an age of split second throwaway images. Some of my engravings have as many as forty different motifs hand carved into a single copper sheet and the prints taken from them will respond to careful and repeated study.�
This exhibition is at Newcastle Arts Centre from the 2nd of August and will run until the 29th. The opening times are 9 am to 5 pm Monday to Saturday, admission is free.
To view images please visit:
http://www.newcastle-arts-centre.co.uk/06%20chris_penn.htm
Kind Regards
Mike Tilley
Posted by Barbara-Ann Brown on August 1, 2006 1:29 PM
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