Film (Made Of Etchings) Edition of Dimensions (WxH): 0 x 0cm
Daisy Armitage uses animation to highlight the beautiful and intricate textures of printmaking. She makes prints, mostly etchings or lithographs, which contain every frame of the animation within the one image, emphasising the importance of both the print itself and the accompanying animation. When animating, she uses high quality scans of the prints to bring forth the fantastically detailed textures of, say, the grain of aquatint, which fizzes like film grain when it animates.
‘Eching in Motion’ celebrates aquatint in a series of five prints, each depicting animals from pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge’s archives. She collaged and painted the animals’ walk cycles onto the plates, and then improvised the aquatint backgrounds based on the animals’ original habitats. After printing the plates, she scanned and re-arranged each animal/frame to a timeline to re-animate them. Dedicating the film solely to etching, she also recorded all the film’s sound from noises made while printing; such as using the tacky sound of ink rolling as foley for rusting foliage.
Daisy graduated from a BA in Illustration Animation at Kingston School of Art in July 2026.
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Film (Made Of Etchings) Edition of Dimensions (WxH): 0 x 0cm
Daisy Armitage uses animation to highlight the beautiful and intricate textures of printmaking. She makes prints, mostly etchings or lithographs, which contain every frame of the animation within the one image, emphasising the importance of both the print itself and the accompanying animation. When animating, she uses high quality scans of the prints to bring forth the fantastically detailed textures of, say, the grain of aquatint, which fizzes like film grain when it animates.
‘Eching in Motion’ celebrates aquatint in a series of five prints, each depicting animals from pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge’s archives. She collaged and painted the animals’ walk cycles onto the plates, and then improvised the aquatint backgrounds based on the animals’ original habitats. After printing the plates, she scanned and re-arranged each animal/frame to a timeline to re-animate them. Dedicating the film solely to etching, she also recorded all the film’s sound from noises made while printing; such as using the tacky sound of ink rolling as foley for rusting foliage.
Daisy graduated from a BA in Illustration Animation at Kingston School of Art in July 2026.
