Screen Printed Painting on canvas

"Giant"
160x160 cms 1969 |
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"Exploding Tree"
160x160 cms 1970
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Sarah Firmin / Dorothy Carr was one of the earliest users of screen printing as a fine art process in the UK http://www.1st-uk-screen-prints.com/. These two paintings are part of a series closely linked to current events taking place at the time of creating, either directly as with the ikonic Honor Blackman in the TV 60/70s serial The Avengers, or retrospectively with ikon images of the atomic bomb.
Handmade Paper Sculpture and Recycling

"Passing Cloud Installation"
380cms square 1997 |
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"A Nose"
(from A museum of Spare Parts) |
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"Metal Tulip"
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"A Nose" and "Metal Tulip" both made from used computer paper and pulp and moulded over car parts. The organic and the mechanic always go hand in hand as we research into new technology - the bird/space flight, the ear/the satellite dish, the Shard/ simply a shard. Recycling and rejuvenation are the essence of human experience.
Artists' Books

Top left to right "Designer Book" "Ecology Book" "Book of War" "Sex Book"
Bottom "Book of Short Stories" "Fossil Book" "Pocket Book of Rocket Science" "A Difficult Book to Read" "Fantasy Book"
Front "Cook Book" |
Reject library books transformed breaking the boundaries between word and image. The visual takes over from the verbal. Images are now included under Ephemera in The Tate Britain Archive.
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