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Cardinal Glimpses No.4

Printmaker: Ganter, Jo, RSA · b. 1963

"As the title implies it is one of a series of etchings called Cardinal Glimpses/ and this was the title of my exhibition at the Talbot Rice Gallery in Edinburgh in 2003. This work was exhibited there and at the Hart Gallery in London, Islington. The Talbot Rice/ publsihed a catalogue of the exhibition that illustrates the print. The title came from my wish to explore the possibility of the very smallest part of a picture/ being the most important part of it, and the first two prints in the series did use small dashes/ of cardinal red. (The term has no religious significance for me.) It was printed from two steel plates." (letter from Jo Ganter to Collections Assistant 2006-05, letter in Ganter's file) "Cardinal Glimpses, important glimpses, play with the idea of making the/ smallest mark in the picture the most important. The crayon scribbles that/ surround them are childish marks to make, and I enjoyed making them for that...Etching especially, because of its slowness and difficulty, acts to/ give the merest smudge or scrape authority. The hardness of steel to etch/ means that no mark is reproduced unwillingly..." (from catalogue of "Jo Ganter, Cardinal Gimpses", Talbot Rice Gallery, 5 April - 3 May 2003)