sadie tierney news

A gallery in a shed: shedshow #1. More infomation and images at the shedshow page and a Strong Island write-up here. Thanks to everyone who came along to the launch!

Photographs by Del Thomas

… on its journey to the scrapyard

A new space in an old shed – constructing the space and putting up a show in preparation for the launch…

Preparing mono prints for the inaugural Shedshow.

A visit to Berlin to see some art…
Highlights were visiting Schneider’s Buero, Berlinische Gallery, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, the Caspar David Friedrich paintings in the Alte Nationalgalerie, meeting up with friends, designers Andy and Kath, and artist Kate and family at Centrum and of course flying Lufthansa from LHR to TXL which has great views of the planes for drawing!

Opens tonight for a private viewing before 2500 postcard sized artworks go on sale on 23 March. Collectors find out the artist’s identity after they have made their purchase. Proceeds go to the student fund which helped me out when I studied at the RCA. http://home.secret.rca.ac.uk/index.html

… At work in the studio a few weeks ago on the three postcards. Shhhh it’s a secret!

And the secret’s out! Update with the 3 cards I submitted.

… in progress.

Printing a lithograph of Le Mont Saint Michel, one of a series of drawings made in France on discontinued paper litho plates… The readymixed solution for printing them had gone mouldy, so after a consultation with Robin Smart (head lithography technician at the RCA) I developed this method which proved workable: –

150ml gum arabic/ 150ml tap water/ 4 drops lemon juice for sensitising the plate, using a soft cotton rag rather than a sponge, then rolling the plate with litho ink (experimenting with adding a bit of magnesium sulphate). Re-charging the roller 3 times per print. For the edition, leave the lemon juice/ citric acid out of the solution. The best prints are nos. 5-15 approximately. It is possible to obtain 20 pulls before the plate deteriorates, and the details start to fade.

Thanks Robin!

…printing monoprint layer backgrounds for a new series of lithographs. The floor vinyl is working well as an alternative blanket.