Print in Place

As a part of the In Place collective, I made an installation in North Shields. Focusing on the Triangle, a small area of Victorian houses, I wanted to draw attention to the lives of the people who had lived there through history. The corner shop had been closed and boarded up for 20 years, so through talking to residents, sharing in online groups and research in the library I pieced together it's past. It had been a general store, a second hand shop, a tattooists, a grogg shop and a sweet shop in living memory. Recalling my own trips to my local sweet shop in the 1980s (when the cornershop has been a sweetshop), I drew on the colours of sherbet pips and rhubarb and custard. The resulting riso prints were pasted randomly onto the boards, evoking the repetition of different people entering and leaving the shop. A limited edition print given to every resident in the street. A short run of prints is also available for sale. Please contact me if you would like more information.