Sweeping

Sweeping 1975

76cm. X 56cm     30in. X 22in.
BFK  Rives

Edition  10,   2 finished , 8 unfinished

Exhibitions
Five Kingston Women 1975 St Lawrence College Kingston On.
Five Kingston Printmakers 1975 The Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queen’s University ,
Slow Boil , 2006, Two artist Exhibition with U.S. Video artist Martha Rosler at Agnes Etherington Art Centre

Collections
The Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queen’s University , Kingston, Ontario. Gift of Mary E. Rawlyk in memory of Natalie Luckyj.

Notes
The floor image was made by sweeping a straw broom across a soft ground coated zinc plate. The soles of children’s  shoes were  pressed into the soft ground acid resist. Clothes pegs  and alphabet blocks were placed in the resist also. The images of blocks beside the broom were off-set onto the print. The image of the broom was made from an offset from the inked broom onto a plastic sheet. This was transferred to a dacron screen and printed. The resulting image was hand coloured with a Prismacolour pencil.

The print was made to record the evidence of children in the home and the repeated need for sweeping.