Henry gets hung

I had two prints shortlisted for

The Summer Exhibition 2019 at the Royal Academy of Arts

both were selected but only one was hung.

hanging at the RA 2019

Photo credit: Phil Sayer


As the print is quite dark, I framed it in a charcoal-coloured stained moulding, glazed with low-reflectance glass. Above is the lucky print waiting to be hung.

Henry at printing press0304

This picture shows me pulling a print of Wells Cathedral on a Rochat press.
Before finalising the image, I made 30 working proofs trying different inks, papers, colours and techniques.
Eventually, I chose a tinted chine collé laid over a Wells-made ‘Somerset’ paper. The chine collé is a conservation-grade paper made by hand in Japan. 

The print is on show in Gallery VII at the RA (no. 1070) until 12 August and can also be found in their online catalogue.

 

The Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts

10 June–12 August 2019

Piccadilly
London W1J 0BD

RA Summer Exhibition 2019

©Henry Hagger 2019

1 Comment

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s