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Belt

Artist: Reeves, Philip Thomas Langford, RSA PPRSW RGI RE · 1931-2017

Belt

The work is a single colour [black] relief print taken from an horizontal piece of found metal with apertures and flanges. Another impression of the…

The work is a single colour [black] relief print taken from an horizontal piece of found metal with apertures and flanges.

Another impression of the work is reproduced in Christopher Andreae’s 2015 volume ‘Philip Reeves’ [Lund Humphries] pl.35 p.51 (below) and discussed on p.50; “As both a collagist and a printmaker (and these two sides of his work are inextricably connected), some pieces of Reeves’ most original images have resulted from the accidental back street discovery of discarded fragments, thrown-out objects the previous function of which may no longer be apparent. He finds in such abandoned things potential for the recycling processes of art, thus investing them with a new life and his art with new forms. ‘Belt’ (ill.35) is one example of this…….The Glasgow printmaker Harry Magee called this ‘Visual game play’ and referred to Reeves’ ‘on-going series “FRAGMENTS”’ He wrote ‘pieces of scrap metal, their surfaces pitted and scarred by decay and the elements, become printing plates, ink worked down into the crevices and depressions etched by time, the raised crust rolled up as in a relief print. Thus he underscores the essential nature of printmaking, the print as an impression, the paper a pigmented mould of a three-dimensional surface.”.

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