NCAD Gallery: Sights of Polykites
Collaborative project by 2nd Year Print Department in NCAD, exhibited in the NCAD Gallery on Thomas Street Jan-Feb 2024. Hand printed laser cut and engraved birch ply prints on Japanese paper.
“The NCAD Gallery presents Sights Of Polykites: An Exhibition of Expanded Printmaking by NCAD Print Department Year 2 Students, 2024. This exhibition highlights the output of the Strategic Alignment of Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (SATLE) which aims to drive teaching and learning innovation and enhancement across the higher education sector on specific themes.Sights Of Polykites is the second NCAD Print Department project funded by SATLE which introduced students to ways in which print informs, and is informed by, new advances in technology. Integrating digital and rapid prototyping technologies at the newly available on-campus 'William Walsh' facility with the analogue and mechanical process of print already familiar to NCAD print students.
Aligned to the NCAD Academic Ethos, this project enabled a focus on learning through making, introducing students to expanded print practice through an engagement with newer digital technologies - a taster of what's possible. Offering an extension of the NCAD print department's existing specialist expertise which also allows for a generation of new knowledge: curiosity, critical enquiry, reflection and innovation within contemporary print practice. This pilot project focused on a process of making a library/ inventory of techniques that allows students and staff to foresee how the William Walsh facilities can be used and integrated into teaching and learning within the context of fine art print.”
https://www.ncad.ie/gallery-event/view/sights-of-polykites
Using traditional Japanese woodblock printing technique, barren on japanese paper.
Own interpretation of polykite shape, manipulated photograph of intersection of Mountjoy Street and St Mary’s Place North.