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Neil Groom | Book of Two Ways: Plate II
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Drypoint Etching, Monotype, Ink, Collage And Embroidery On Pianola Paper
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Dimensions (WxH): 69.5 x 28cm
Groom's practice brings together printmaking, painting, collage and embroidery to explore memory, loss and retrieval through materially layered surfaces. Antique pianola paper, an obsolete technology that physically encoded music through perforation, becomes both support and subject, its ghostly scores suggesting traces of songs no longer heard. Through incision, transfer, layering and repair, the works draw parallels between printmaking and archaeology, proposing each print as a recovered artefact whose fragile, analogue surfaces preserve the marks of touch, labour and time.
Book of Two Ways is a series of double-sided drypoints and monotypes with added embroidery on antique pianola paper. Inspired by the ancient Egyptian Book of Two Ways, one of the earliest known maps of the afterlife, the works reimagine the spirit's journey by land and water towards the Field of Reeds. Fragmented river systems, roads, ruins and cartographic traces combine aerial and shifting perspectives to create uncertain landscapes where navigation becomes both physical and metaphysical. The series also reflects on the Rangitaiki River in Aotearoa New Zealand, which bordered Groom's childhood home and whose banks, marked by sites of burial, first suggested the river as both a place of passage and remembrance.
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Drypoint Etching, Monotype, Ink, Collage And Embroidery On Pianola Paper
Edition of
Dimensions (WxH): 69.5 x 28cm
Groom's practice brings together printmaking, painting, collage and embroidery to explore memory, loss and retrieval through materially layered surfaces. Antique pianola paper, an obsolete technology that physically encoded music through perforation, becomes both support and subject, its ghostly scores suggesting traces of songs no longer heard. Through incision, transfer, layering and repair, the works draw parallels between printmaking and archaeology, proposing each print as a recovered artefact whose fragile, analogue surfaces preserve the marks of touch, labour and time.
Book of Two Ways is a series of double-sided drypoints and monotypes with added embroidery on antique pianola paper. Inspired by the ancient Egyptian Book of Two Ways, one of the earliest known maps of the afterlife, the works reimagine the spirit's journey by land and water towards the Field of Reeds. Fragmented river systems, roads, ruins and cartographic traces combine aerial and shifting perspectives to create uncertain landscapes where navigation becomes both physical and metaphysical. The series also reflects on the Rangitaiki River in Aotearoa New Zealand, which bordered Groom's childhood home and whose banks, marked by sites of burial, first suggested the river as both a place of passage and remembrance.
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