Rob Morgan: Echoes

Using intaglio printmaking techniques and photographic material, the prints in this exhibition form part of an on-going project started several years ago.

The images are taken from old family photographs and the techniques used include sugar-lift, toner-transfer and carborundum on plates of mild steel, reclaimed aluminium or acetate. The processes and materials used are chosen to break down and simplify the image whilst at the same time allowing new and random elements to reveal themselves.

The prints show sometimes only a simple shape or form, detail is lost or obscured and unexpected elements might appear, echoing perhaps, the process of memory - with the passing of time we are often sure of the event but details can become uncertain.