Family Portrait 02 by Phil Constable. One off original screen print. Printed on 200gsm archival stock. Signed by the artist. (These are hand made prints. No photo can convey the tactile textures and all the beautiful details in each piece.)

PHIL CONSTABLE

Artist and master print maker Phil Constable works by layering images via screen print, utilising half-tone photography, symbols, mark making with paint and gold and silver gilding on various surfaces including paper, board, and glass.

Documenting industrial sites and spaces, often focusing on trace images created by construction markings and/or graffiti that has often been covered or ‘painted out’ poorly. Phil finds these images and incorporates them as part of a readymade dialogue between the mediums of the mechanically reproduced image, the brush and the tensions therein.

In this Family Portrait series the starting point for each piece is an old family photograph. The pieces explore the fragmentary nature of memory, how our pasts are obscured by the very act of reminiscence.