Tales to Relate
This series of intaglio prints follow a pattern. Each plate was made by pairing two images 15 x 15cm as though looking at a book ‘spread’. At the inking stage Emma considered the conversation between the two images and created a third element to reflect on its content. This third element is not on the photopolymer plate, it’s a monotype.
Together the prints form a campaign. They speak on Emma’s behalf, describing narratives which are particularly hard to hear. Many of the photographs were taken during the Garage residencies and, in at least two cases, the work depicted was originally made by Henny Burnett.
Emma worked with Theodora Ballantyne Way at Atelier 21 Bristol to produce the plates, also printing them on site.
The ‘campaign’ prints were framed roughly and without glass to look like abandoned flags on a march.
The individual prints below relate closely to the ones above. They describe talking about fear with a child; a marriage viewed from a distance; being boxed in by circumstances beyond one’s control; and the fear of having been complicit in something awful. Emma didn’t set out to make these prints, they made themselves.
