Artworks

Fernando Feijoo RE (elected ARE 2005, RE 2012)

Revolution

reduction linocut, edition of 30

paper size 30 x 42cm

image size 28 x 40cm

£160 unframed

The robot symbolises the dawn of a new era: we move ever closer to a daily collaboration of man and machine. Whether it is machines fighting remote wars or assisting with AI to provide a more streamlined health care service, the machine is increasingly woven into our daily lives. It is important to remember our true identity: the human race and what we stand for. The robot acts as servant to the main hub of knowledge control. But the question is: who is behind the control screen?

The bright vivid colour in this print is nostalgic, and a nod to childhood memories of playing with metal vintage windup toys and surreal war games between characters. This print has been constructed using a jigsaw method of reduction lino cut printing. This means pieces of the lino are cut out, then inked separately in different colours, and put back together again (like a jigsaw) before being printed.

Fernando Feijoo’s work is in many public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, British Museum London, Bodleian Library Oxford, Ashmolean Museum Oxford, University of Wales Aberystwyth, Jiangsu Museum of Contemporary Art China, Winchester School Art Library, and many private collections in the UK and abroad. He studied BA Illustration at Kent Institute of Art & Design in the late 1990's and studied MA Printmaking at Winchester School of Art. Feijoo then went on the work at the Curwen Studio as a Master Printmaker working with many artists such as Paula Rego, and David Gentleman, before embarking into art education and running his own private print studio in Cambridge.