The Bear (RA Summer Exhibition 2024)

As seen at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2024!

This sustainably produced A5 risograph edition is pressed with sunflower and blue, red and black archival plant-based inks. The edition is named for Georgia’s love of 'The Bear', an illustrated children’s book by Raymond Briggs. It was produced in 2024 and selected for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in the same year.

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.

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