Harriet Bridges-Webb
@thicc.cave
Harriet's practice investigates time, sound and process through the subject matter of live performance. She develops live photographic imagery into copper plate etch prints that emulate and evoke the energy of live performance, through the use of her personal gestural inking technique. This process-driven technique involves the unorthodox combining of traditional etch print inking, and gestural, painterly movements, to create final prints that evoke the dynamic shifts in sight and sound associated with live performance and explore visual representations of sound and time within a single image.
As a process-focused artist, her practice involves giving single frames of movement hours of labour and production, with the body becoming the active agent of change in the process. She explores ephemeral and impersonal modes of image capturing, and reintroduces highly detailed and laborious printmaking processes to create new life cycles and timelines for the works that exist outside of the visual realm. Her work has a deep connection to the language of print itself, and through her work she explores how multiple moments in visual language history interconnect and resonate. She aims to continue to explore these links, and the effect that broader ecology has on understanding and experiencing an image as well as the experience of the live moment in the present.
View the work: Building 16, Building 27, Rayner Hoff Project Space
