Untitled VII1980-2002, printed 2010
This work belongs to Brassington’s series, Untitled (2002), which features the artist’s children collaborating with the camera to stage uncanny domestic scenarios. This series illustrates the psycho-dynamics of family life and familial rituals that are often explored in Brassington’s works. The series responds to Brassington’s long-term engagement with surrealism and psychoanalysis. ‘Untitled VI’ showing a child, curiously bound, evokes the feeling of a dream whose narrative eludes the memory. Two other photographs, ‘Untitled V’ and ‘Untitled VII’, of clothed bodies, abstracted as if showing a child’s eye view, are equally mysterious. Garments worn by family members perhaps; their form and fabric with the capacity to prompt childhood memories. In both photographs the hands are opposed: a gloved hand on the wrong side of the body or a hand to a hip unfeasibly postured, belonging to another person
(2019)
Also known as Giclee prints or bubble-jet prints, pigment ink-jet prints are generated by computer printers from digital or scanned files using dye-based or pigment-based inks. A series of nozzles spray tiny droplets of ink onto the paper surface in a precise pattern that corresponds to the digital image file. In dye-based prints the ink soaks into the paper, whereas in pigment-based prints the ink rests and dries on top of the paper surface.
Whilst the term is broad, pigment ink-jet prints have come to be associated with prints produced on fine art papers. They are the most versatile and archival method of printing available to photographers today. A wide variety of material on which an image can be printed with such inks are available, including various textures and finishes such as matte photo paper, watercolour paper, cotton canvas or pre-coated canvas.
