Country Press 2 was an exhibition at the ANU School of Art in October 2009. There was one of these the year before, hence it was number two.
I offered to make a promotional poster that could double as my work in the show.
'wood chop' is on the left, 'fairy floss' on the right
This was the first thing I printed in my new studio, on my new press, and I used the poster to test out what Kitty the Vandercook could do… so each poster took multiple passes of the press. The metal type (the names) took two passes for each colour scheme, and the wood type (the top half of the poster) took four passes of the press each, one for the background colour run (hard to see in the reproduction!), two for the main colours, and one for the — hand-applied — rainbow roll on the number. The stars were then hand cut and stamped.
The poster itself is quite large; we scanned one to make an A5 invite for the show.
One of the (many) lessons learned with these posters is that soy-based ink doesn’t like drying on coated paper stock. I can’t buy oil-based ink locally anymore, so the learning curve was a double one working with the press, and working with the ink. Still, I think they worked out ok. There are 10 of each colour.
These are still available, and priced at Aus$50 each plus postage and handling.
Contact me for more details or to purchase. I will send you an invoice that can be paid by Paypal, EFT or cheque.
(I also made some quick splash posters to hang around the campus. They were souvenired pretty quickly!)