City Nightfall

I have loved Kenneth Slessor’s poetry since I first studied it at high school. I find his imagery very graphical and therefore there was no shortage of wonderful opportunities for a printmaker. I responded to his multifaceted observations of the transformation that occurs as day transitions into night, the inexorable inevitability of that cycle, the “changing” of the urban guard as the night dwellers takeover and the references to urban decay, an issue that remains current. Slessor refers to areas of inner Sydney such as King’s Cross and Darlingurst in many of his poems and I felt a strong sense of this in City Nightfall.

Technique: Collagraph Finished Paper Size: 66cm X 44cm Ink: Rudolph Faust Paper: Fabriano Tiepolo 290gsm Press: Hilldav Maximum Edition: 10