This term – related to the word collage - includes a variety of methods used by artists to create a printable surface. Here you can see collagraphs* printed from wood, card, cloth, thick paper and metal. (* see Publications section)

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The main process here is papermaking. Sometimes sheets of varying colour are formed from different coloured pulps and there may be additional printing from wood or metal. Papercasting involves the damp paper drying on a textured surface so that it takes up the texture of that surface.

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Most of these works are technically traditional wood cuts (see Resources section). Ink has been rolled onto the cut surface prior to printing. The use of very thin wood allows printing on an etching press with heavy pressure which embosses the paper surface.

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Etching* means that diluted acid has been used to erode the surface of zinc, steel or copper prior to printing. There are also prints from the surface of perforated metal or gauze and others where materials have been glued to a metal base plate.
(*see Resources section)

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These designs have been made by hand-printing from lino blocks and cut pencil erasers or they have been made using the Japanese itajime process (see Resources section).

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A selection of images from the Inventions and Discoveries exhibition at the New Gallery, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK - March 2nd to 27th 2007 - Phone the Gallery on +44 (0)117 9735129 for more information or contact: enquiries@peterford.org.uk

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