Graham Flack

Of Man and Angel
Photoplate: Charcoal on True Grain Film
3 Runs
1000mm x 700mm
2005

As a BP National Portrait Gallery Award Winner in 2003, Graham Flack was invited the following year to create two prints at Edinburgh Printmakers. The prints, produced in collaboration with Master Printer Alastair Clark, developed Graham’s distinctive monochromatic and loose style of working. Drawing with charcoal and methylated spirits on to True grain Film, three photoplates were then exposed to print the final image. The large scale of the prints is also characteristic of Graham’s work.

Describing his work Flack has said ‘The mask continues to fascinate. The weight of it, the weightlessness of it, hidden vulnerabilities and inner turmoil. In my earlier work I have wanted to confront the inner reality quite literally ‘head on’, experiencing the full face as being more penetrable and thus more transparent’

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