- Title:
- Hauling the Nets
- Object name(s):
- Prints; Fishermen hauling in fishing nets from the deck of a boat
- Brief description:
- Six fishermen haul fishing nets onto the deck of a fishing boat. In the foreground are ropes. No horizon. Printed in three green-greys and a blue-grey
- Collection:
- Aberystwyth University, School of Art Museum & Gallery
- Acquisition date:
- 1994
- Acquisition method:
- Gift
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension value:
- 360
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension value:
- 495
- Inscription content:
- (pencil, lower centre of print) 25/50, (pencil, lower right corner of print) Crawford [artist's signature]
- Material:
- Offset colour lithograph on Rivoli acid free paper
- Object name:
- Prints; Fishermen hauling in fishing nets from the deck of a boat
- Object number:
- PR1918
- Object production date:
- 1990
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1990
- Date - latest:
- 1990
- Object production person:
- Alistair Crawford
- Person's association:
- Artist/Maker
- Person's biographical note:
- Painter, printmaker, photographer, writer and performance artist. Studied textiles at Glasgow School of Art, 1962-66. Taught Textiles at the University of Leeds, 1968-71, and Graphic Design at Coventry Polytechnic, 1971-73, before teaching at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1974-2001, where he acted as Head of Department, 1986-95, and was awarded a Professorship in 1990. He has also worked as an Archive Research Fellow at the British School at Rome. Crawford has exhibited with the 56 Group Wales and in 1985 he won the Gold Medal at the National Eisteddfod. His written research includes monographs on the photographers Mario Giacomelli and Erich Lessing. His practical work - photography, etchings and paintings - is generally inspired by architecture, places and people
- Person's birth date:
- 1945
- Person's forenames:
- Alistair
- Person's place of birth:
- UK, Scotland, Fraserburgh
- Person's surname:
- Crawford
- Object production place:
- UK, Wales, Aberystwyth
- Owner:
- The artist
- Organisation's association:
- Object source
- Responsible department/section:
- Prints
- Text:
- Number 25 of an edition of 50 (or 60?) plus 16 artist's proofs. Printed by Andrew Baldwin at the School of Art, Llanbadarn Road, University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Based on a period photograph by Ford Jenkins of the 'Lord Hewart' on a trip from Hull to Bear Island. The artist notes that the colours were ''drawn directly onto acetate sheets ready for plate making, one separation for each colour on top of the other, 'blind' until finally printed''
- Text reason:
- Collections online text
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Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
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