David Dubose

The Myth of Navigation
Stone: Lithographic Tusche and Crayon
5 Runs
445mm x 560mm
2002

My art has for some time been largely immediate, painterly and expressive, responding to preoccupations with questions that probably have no answers. Over the past few years, however, I have been as much concerned with political and cultural issues as with larger, existentialist matters. The newer concern is accompanied by a more reflective approach to image making, constructing layers of visual information and appropriated photographic elements. Historical photographs over-painted with seemingly incongruous elements create a narrative that speaks to the present as well as the past.

I have been a printmaker since the mid 1970s, working primarily as a lithographer. Even with the availability of ball grained plates, photo-positive plates, polyester plates and waterless lithography, I still prefer working on limestone. The intensity of colour and the wide range of mark making possibilities with lithography seem unobtainable in any other medium.

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