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Contemporary artist Chris Bourke produces beautiful prints from hand made Linocuts. Using clean lines and a predominantly monochrome palette, Bourke archives a certain naive charm, built around stripped back simplicity. His prints are inspired by tattoo art and religious iconography, a pairing that works to exceptional success, centring around graphic patterns, typography and illustrative imagery, to create miniature tableaus and iconic motifs. ‘She Floated Away’ depicts the body of a girl, lifted inanimately over rooftops and towards the night sky, as her heart floats away, detached. Magnetic and compelling, the print possesses a deeply haunting quality with its stark, inky lines and surreal subject matter a striking piece of contemporary print work.
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