Artists In Conversation
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Artists Ruth Ewan and Ben Sanderson discuss the role of printmaking in their wider practice, and the works on display in our current exhibition The Future is Today: Prints and the University of Warwick 1965 to Now.
Glasgow-based Ruth Ewan’s work Rocks, Morals, Quicksand (2020) is a series of 8 A2 posters, pasted onto the gallery wall. The posters draw on found texts from a wide range of historic sources to reveal hidden and lesser-known narratives within the 18th century artist William Hogarth’s 8 series painting A Rake’s Progress (1735).
Ben Sanderson is a Coventry-born artist who now lives and works in Cornwall. We have commissioned Sanderson to produce a four-plate photopolymer etching to commemorate the University of Warwick Art Collection’s 60th anniversary. Titled Placing Place (2024), Sanderson creates abstracted forms, and hexagons represent a patchwork quilt started by the artist’s mother when she was eighteen. The templates are made from old Christmas cards and envelopes from her part time job at Dunlop.
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