Studio Notes: Revisiting my visual diaries as drypoint prints

Written By Carl Gopalkrishnan (aka Gopal)

These are my first drypoint prints for decades - Akinesia and Goddess which I did today. My pet project is reworking a selection of my visual diaries over the past 3 decades. I wanted to do a series of prints, but it's been two decades since I did any etchings and I don't own a press. So, I'm incredibly grateful to printmaker Monika Lukowska-Appel here in Perth in Western Australia at the Midland Arts Junction who ran a workshop for artists in my area. The Goddess in particular is an image that came out of sketches for my painting Australia a Prophecy but in the end I went with a painting of the Dior model from 1947’s New Look Collection.

Goddess, drypoint print U/S on cotton rag, (giclee edition, Nov 2021, Carl Gopalkrishnan

Akinesia, drypoint print U/S on cotton rag, Nov 2021 Carl Gopalkrishnan

Carl Gopalkrishnan (aka Gopal)

Over the past two decades, Carl Gopalkrishnan's artwork has garnered international recognition for its ability to forge meaningful connections between cultural narratives in art and literature and the complex dynamics driving international law, intervention, and global conflict. Carl transforms our familiar cultural artefacts into new myths. Through his art he opens a door for legal and military minds to explore the creative, subconscious, and emotional nuances underlying doctrines that shape war and peace.

https://www.carlgopal.com
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