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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. ‘The Message’ depicts a swallow, rendered in thick lines of inky black, sailing across the page with a letter in its beak. Bourke has added a tiny red heart to the envelope, the only pinprick of colour in the piece. 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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