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Down the Tube Published by Faine Contemporary Art in 2011
'Down the Tube' is a celebration of London's cultural life as portrayed metaphorically by the underground stations that serve the centre of the city. The familiar chequerboard is filled with coloured circles bearing the names and livery of the main lines. e.g. The dark ultramarine of the Piccadilly line, the yellow of the Circle line or the red of the Central line. Each station has an image that is either relevant by association, location, or language, e.g. Baker Street has the front door of the house which Sherlock Holmes was supposed to have inhabited, Camden Town features a painting by Walter Sickert called the Camden Town Murder (a reference to Jack the Ripper?), while on the image on the Victoria line's light blue circle is a photograph of the face of Queen Victoria. Text is layered over the image with consecutive letters spelling an A to Z of London locations and a larger text with numbers reminiscent of representing the London postcodes. Down the Tube is a signed limited edition digital print finished with a silk-screen printed satin protection varnish and an Ultra Violet gloss varnish printed on the circles. The image was generated on computer using Adobe Illustrator and proofed and editioned on an Epson 9900 using Epson archival inks on Somerset Satin 335gsm Enhanced paper. Down the Tube is a first generation original print, which only exists in this form. |
Prints from 2011
