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 Plate 74, Will Maw  Plate 88, Will Maw
 Origins of Exile, Part Four, Will Maw
 Plate 1, Will Maw
 Plate 24, Will Maw
 Plate 27, Will Maw
 Plate 75, Will Maw
 Plate 92, Will Maw
 Plate 94, Will Maw
 The Endless Loop, Will Maw
 The Meaning of Bad & Good, Will Maw
 This is England Part Two, Will Maw
 United State, Will Maw
 Witch Doctor's Curse, Part Three, Will Maw
 Yes and No, Will Maw
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Will Maw Since graduating from Glasgow School of Art in 1996, Will Maw has been a regular exhibitor with Compass Gallery. Having recently graduated from the Royal College of Art, London, gaining his Masters in Fine Art, we are proud to be now extending the link by presenting Will's first solo exhibition of his new work in Compass. This latest body of works on paper confirms and demonstrates a rare ability to combine original concepts with complex imaginative ideas, together with the impressive mastery and technical skills of Will Maw as a Fine Art printer. Heavily influenced by my work as a printer, and reliant on an intricate and complex procedure of print technology, these large scale works aim to combine a wide variety of imagery in a medium that exploits the machinery of print through the immediacy of drawing. Made in simultaneous series the prints derive from the collage works in the Histoire Naturelle d'Impremerie Economique - an extensive collection of digital prints that use printed money as a ground, a visual model combining text, portaiture, mathematical geometries and the definitive image of printed value.
The screenprinted work returns the image to the hand drawn mark; in a reversal of the conventions of print publishing, the editioned digital image is dismantled and recreadted in an interpretation of its original form. With a self conscious nod to the arts of medieval manuscripts and the historical legacy of the printer and copyist, the works teeter on the fine balance between visual recognition and legibility, the collision of multiple perspectives and simultaneous impression of contradictory images. The extremes of the drawing-in-print process is the diptych work 'Yes and No', the former where the images all exist in a partial and simultaneous state, the latter where the image has all but dissolved and the screen has returned to its initial blank state. |