Gail Brodholt, who creates amazing linocut prints of London's transport - Londoner #40
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- Опубликовано: 19 окт 2024
- Gail is a professional painter and printmaker of contemporary London landscapes. Much of her work depicts the London transport network and the journeys made across the city on tubes and trains. She works in her studio right by the Thames Barrier at Second Floor Studio and Arts in Woolwich.
In this film we see Gail printing her linocuts, and we hear her talking about the inspiration for her work, which comes from the journeys made by ordinary Londoners and their everyday experiences.
This film is one of 5 that have been selected for our ‘Design in London’ open submission competition, launched back in May 2014. londondesignfestival.com/events/1000-londoners-design-london
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This film is part of 1000 Londoners, a five-year digital project which aims to create a digital portrait of a city through 1000 of the people who identify themselves with it. The profile contains a 3 minute film that gives an insight into the life of the Londoner, as well as their personal photos of London and some answers to crucial questions about their views on London life. Over the course of the project we aim to reveal as many facets of the capital as possible, seeing city life from 1000 points of view.
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1000 Londoners is produced by South London based film production company and social enterprise, Chocolate Films. The filmmakers from Chocolate Films will be both producing the films and providing opportunities to young people and community groups to make their own short documentaries, which will contribute to the 1000 films. Visit chocolatefilms.com
Transcript:
The print making process I use is mainly lino cuts. I print them on my albion press made in ’41 so over 170 years old now. I bought it on eBay years ago from some bloke in Norfolk and he delivered it to me just strapped upright to the back of his trailer. I don't know how it got here without mishap but it did and I've moved it myself...not myself but with the help of strong men and each time it's been safely moved. If it cracks, because it's cast-iron, well, it's done for so I take great care of it. I suppose what I'm interested in, is those noticed places that people pass through on their way to somewhere else, you know, on the tube escalator or railway station platform, speeding down the motorway. We're all so focussed on arriving somewhere that we hardly notice our surroundings as we're getting there and yet we all spend so much time in these in-between type places. I like the feeling that between here and there, anything can happen. Of course it mostly doesn't but when you're travelling, you're free of normal life in a way; suspended if you like. And it's always that anticipation that there may be an adventure ahead of you. I love living and working in London and it's important to me that I try express something about the world that I live in now. I like showing the ordinary part of the lives that we take for granted: getting the tube, standing on an escalator, catching a train and so the inspiration for a lot of my work is the London transport system. I like to start by doing lots of very quick drawings in my sketchbook, you know, on a railway bench, on the side of the road, in my car. I like to try and get everything sorted out as much as possible first. And then when I start cutting the linos, I'm freed up in way, you know, I've made a lot of decisions already, I don't need to worry about what's going where, I just concentrate on colours and getting the tones right and the mark making. So when you pull that first proof off the press, you never know what you're going to see. It could be, more or less what you planned, it could be, something unexpected. With print making, I also like the quality of the craft - that my prints are all hand-made, and hand-printed, by me, is important.
You are so so blessed Gail, I would give anything to have a career like yours- such perfect peace!
Great work and beautiful press!
Actually they are stunning prints!
I really love your work and I'm very envious of your gorgeous press!
great work!
Where do you buy the large pieces of Lino? I can only find small pieces.. 😡
respect... printing is very cool