Greenpeg

Greenpeg 1972

67cm. X 46cm.    26.5in. X 18in.
white paper
Edition 10

Exhibitions

Group Show of Graduating Printmaking Students  at Brighton Polytechnic, shown at Art Gallery of Sussex University U.K and Consort Gallery, London, U.K.

Notes

Greenpeg  was the first image of a domestic object to be printed by Mary Rawlyk. She made a series of experimental prints using all of the printmaking techniques that were available in the programme at the Brighton Polytechnic. This print was a lithograph, made on a metal plate and printed on an off-set lithographic press. It was one of several clothes peg prints that she exhibited in the United Kingdom.

Although an off-set press was never again available for her, Mary Rawlyk made use of the principle of offsetting .  In several prints, an image  was transferred from an inked  surface  to a plastic sheet, from which which it was then placed on a print and passed through the etching press. Examples are the scissors in Cutting Cloth and Cutting String.