Irlandese con currach

December 7, 2020 | Irma Irsara

Irlandese con currach
(Irish with currach) 1990

A companion piece to ‘Verso l’isola di Murano‘, ‘Irlandese con currach’ uses a precise palate of earthy colours to comment on ideas of tradition and survival linked to landscape.

Both pieces have similarities in theme but they are also preoccupied with captured light. In this piece, the fresh strong green that reflects back the light is particularly important and represents a response to an area with a unique visual identity.

Details:

Price £70 (multiple) offered as part of #artistsupportpledge initiative.

unframed price

Limited edition 2 plate etching
Aquatint, sugar-lift, aquaforte, rolled colour

2/50 – number 2 of an edition of 50

Paper: Somerset White Texture 300gsm

Print size: H 15 cm x W 15 cm
Paper size: H 25.5 cm x W 25 cm

Suggested framed dimensions:
H 31 x W 31 cm (min)

Available at:
http://irmairsara.bigcartel.com/product/irlandese-con-curraghs

Artist info:
https://irmairsara.com/about.htm

I’ll be offering further work for £200 or under and will pledge to use 20% of every £1000 raised to purchase a piece myself or as a donation to one of the art charities supported by the scheme.

About the scheme:
#artistsupportpledge is an artist-led movement and network to support artists struggling financially during Covid 19 using the social media platform Instagram.
Full details: artistsupportpledge.com

Porous

November 12, 2020November 12, 2020 | Irma Irsara

Porous refers to the filtering of a feminine aesthetic that runs throughout the book. Using basic shapes within the images – spiral, triangle, circle, square – my aim was to transform the masculinity of the four elements.

I used various materials to imprint patterns into the softground – materials that relate to ideas of feminism, liberation and empowerment. These include lace from old dresses and, more importantly, tights, significant as they derive from hose originally worn by European men, subsequently appropriated by women.

Materials from women’s fashion are also a reference to the clothes factories local to me at the time but now gone (around Fontill Road, North London) which were predominantly Greek and Turkish.

The single words, produced with photo etching, were suggested by Frances Presley as counterpoints to the imagery

Offered for £150 as part of #artistsupportpledge

Limited edition artists book with hand-printed etchings
13/20 – number 13 in edition of 20
(number 1 was purchased by British Library, Modern Contemporary Collection)

Linen-coated hard cover
Stitch bound – printed back and front

8 pages + blank inside covers
8 x 2 plate etchings total – 1 per page
Etchings are aquaforte, sugar lift, aquatint, soft ground incorporating colour tissue (Chine-collé)

single word texts are etched on shaped plates

book size 16.5 x 16.5 cm
page size 16 x 16 cm

About the scheme:
#artistsupportpledge is an artist-led movement and network to support artists struggling financially during Covid 19 using Instagram.
Full details: artistsupportpledge.com

#artistsupportpledge

November 7, 2020 | Irma Irsara

The Artist Support Pledge is new scheme which aims to promote and support artists at a difficult time. The concept is simple: Artists who commit to the pledge will post images of a work that’s for sale on Instagram, for no more than £200 ($230), and each time their sales reach £1,000 ($1,155) they promise to buy another artist’s work for £200.

Selling certain works cheaper is an act of generosity on the part of artists in return for support. In addition, when an artist reaches their target, they pledge to pay it forward

The initiative was set up by Matthew Burrows to alleviate some of the stress the pandemic has caused to artists. The project, which he launched on his Instagram page, “was really a response to the current situation, a creative solution to how I might help myself but also friends and colleagues through this period, by utilizing the generosity of the arts community”

I currently have a number of works on offer (with more to follow) which can be purchased direct or through my Big Cartel site.

links to the work (clockwise):

Riflesso di terra arida (Reflection of Dry Earth)

Artichoke Stalks

Studio con il nero (Study with Black)

Acqua limpida (Limpid Water)

Studio sull’alba 3 (Dawn Study 3)

Invito sulla torre di Babele

September 22, 2020September 22, 2020 | Irma Irsara

I created Invito sulla torre di Babele in the Accademia di Belle Arti under the tutelage of Fabio Bertoni who maintained that you can extract something from nothing by starting with the language of lines.

Using the story of the Tower of Babel I wanted to explore the idea of language emerging organically from a landscape.

Available from:
https://irmairsara.bigcartel.com/product/invito-sulla-torre-di-babele

Details:

Limited edition 2 colour etching
Aquatint, sugar-lift, aquaforte, rolled colour

30/30 – number 30 of an edition of 30

Paper: Somerset White Texture 300gsm

Print size: H 23 cm x W 25.5 cm
Paper size: H 35 cm x W 38 cm

Suggested framed dimensions:
H 43 x W 45 cm (min)

l’incisione

June 1, 2017June 2, 2017 | Irma Irsara

Riguardando i lavori di anni fa, ricordo le tecniche iniziate assieme col grande maestri dell’incisione Bruscaglia e Bertoni, professori all’Accademia di Urbino quando io ero studente. A Londra, ho poi ripreso l’incisione negli anni 90 nei workshops di Ormond Road.

Collegando e rivisitando sempre i miei lavori di prima, vedo come mi è molto importante tutto quello che ho fatto prima per la mia formazione artistica e per inventare sempre nuove possibilità per nuove opere.

La sovvraposizione delle lastre e l’uso di solo due colori mi affascina ancora. La tecnica del sugarlift e open-bite dona una libertà simile al dipingere ed è molto utile per indicare ombre e graduazioni gentili per la composizione e tema. La possibilità di multeplici dell’incisione-stampe fatte con le mani da me ha un fascino tattile che non si dimentica facilmente.

Ora la ricerca è diventata quella lontana prospettiva all’infinito – l’orrizzonte che non ha mai fine.

I currently have a small selection of framed etchings for a limited time and at very affordable prices at:
Libertea Cafe, Unit G-12, 159-163 Marlborough Road, London N19 4NF
Details, including opening times, can be found on YELP.