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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. ‘You and Me’ depicts two, red love hearts, each adorned with a banner reading ‘You’ and ‘Me’, respectively. A black arrow shoots through both, while an explosion fires in the background, drawn in thick, inky, zig zag lines. It’s tattoo art for the page bold, graphic and laced with religious symbolism for a striking piece of contemporary print work.
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