To be filled with light
2022
Anna Higgins explores the expanded field of photography, incorporating found archival and contemporary material as well as her own photographs to create ambiguous images that sit poetically between abstraction and figuration. Her images are formed through a combination of analogue and digital processes, and include collage, painting and drawing, scanning and re-photographing. This work forms part of Higgins’s series A place beyond heaven. She made this series after completing a residency in Athens, during which she made regular visits to the National Observatory, becoming interested in early astronomical photography. Suggestive of celestial spheres and otherworldly spaces, these ambiguous, abstract compositions highlight Higgins’s interest in exploring the spiritual in nature while looking at the representation of light, astronomy and the sun in ancient art and cultural history.
(2023)
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.
