Amber Moir (b.1990) is an artist working from Cape Town, South Africa.

 

Amber Moir’s large-scale, immersive works push the limitations of traditional monotype techniques and exist as a confluence of painting, drawing and print. Watercolours are used to paint on sheets of polypropylene plastic before being impressed onto damp calico fabric through the physical and unpredictable process of printing with a manual pitch-roller. Once dry, some of the works develop into drawings, as shaded areas and fine lines are added with colour pencils. Strips of folded fabric and uneven printed surfaces serve as visual cues of the physical and hybrid nature of Moir’s process.

 

“The language of my work is forged through translating watercolour paintings into pitch-rolled prints. My initial interest in printmaking was the feeling of facilitating a series of events rather than imposing something directly on to a substrate, and this remains fundamental to my work. I overwork the plates with an awareness that some of the mark and pigment will be lost in the transfer. I like that this process pares down intensity and results in works that retain complexity but feel even-keeled.  A further separation between myself and the work comes with the image shifting its weight, from left to right. Printing turns the work on its axis and it suddenly exists as a mirrored reflection of itself”.

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