Dartmoor Tiger (RA Summer Exhibition 2023)

As seen at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2023!

This risograph edition was sustainably produced in 2022 and selected for the curated hang at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2022, the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2023 and has been shortlisted for the New Light Art Prize 2023.

The edition was designed in response to a beautiful house Georgia spent time in whilst on holiday in Dartmoor last year. She chose to print with warm sunflower and red inks, influenced by the appeal of winter light infusing the shabby grandeur of her temporary home. Georgia’s tiger is a gentle keepsake lifted from a place of literary sanctuary she remembers from childhood, Judith Kerr’s brilliant The Tiger Who Came To Tea.

Since graduating with a BA in Fine Art: Painting and Printmaking from Glasgow School of Art in 2018 Georgia has championed sustainable printmaking processes such as risography, a mechanised form of stencil printing with a more climate conscious appeal than its traditional or digital counterparts.

While she primarily uses contemporary mediums of replication within her practice, Georgia’s knowledge of traditional printmaking strongly informs her mark-making processes. With each new edition she generates an organic and intuitive creative dialogue, designed to challenge the stereotypical view of risography as a ‘pop’ or ‘kitsch’ medium. Through this exchange she highlights the subtle possibilities of colour and texture that can be achieved using sustainable soya-based inks, bridging the divide between fine art duplication and more accessible printmaking mediums.

A Riso machine is a stencil duplicator similar to silkscreen in nature. The Riso prints one colour at a time in bright, vibrant hues to create rich overlays of grainy texture. Each print is slightly different with the layer registration and ink coverage, making them fall within the original print category.