Harriet Tinney
About
Harriet is a UK based printmaker and studied at the University of Brighton before starting her MA at the Royal College of Art.
In her work she explores the materiality of text through multiple print processes, writing and book making.
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Statement
I am interested in ways in which we piece together words ….. letters … fragments…
shapes…. . how we search for familiar signifiers of meaning. I am not really trying to find meaning instead I dissect typography to create
f l o ating
disloc ate d
forms. That can or can’t be read. Textual slippages intend to reveal the dislocation between text and meaning in consumer and contemporary contexts. This language is opaque
instructive --- oozing a proposed sense of clarity (?)…
My practice explores what happens when this text becomes ….
fr ac tur e d
fragmen t e d ….
reduced to an
abstract
i n co mp lete form. Softly dislocated from its origins. Text sits and floats in pools of translucent colour ….
…. …… ..
diluted
illegible.
Abstracted forms occur in the in-between spaces of text. These often are ….
em p ty
gl owi ng
neutral (?)
vaca nt
spaces on our screens that are seen as the negative space of contemporary communication.
….
I look through
And in t o
Cut out colours, as light hits
A soft fuzzy g l o w
….
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Medium: Screen print on Shoji paper
Size: 10 x 15 cm
D...U...O
In these prints I am working with a technique called
‘Ura-zuri’ …..
which in Japanese woodblock printing translates as
‘back printing’.
The print is made on the back of the material and viewed through the front. The
back image interacts with the
front image …
It creates an uneasy focal quality which emphasises the
blurred and
fuzzy
reading of the forms.
Process Newspaper
La p
t op
draw ____
la se r
c-u-t___
___ woo d ...
ink ____ up
I document a process of making. I draw on technologies (such as laser cutting) ) ) ) to create processed marks, generating ....
uniformit y …
consisten c y …
multipli city …
which are found in the digital typography that I reference. This way of working sees a hybridity of
human
hand and
machine ... …….
Wood grain
fuzziness
static
sheen : spilling out of the drawing space.
Medium: Woodblock on Newsprint
Size: 45 x 32 cm