About Deborah Beaumont

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My visual arts practice utilises the materials and technologies of local newspaper production to investigate the reproductions and slippages of print. 

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The detritus that I have collected and utlised in my arts practice include: newspaper spoilage (spoils), used newspaper printing plates, liths (large-scale negatives), and newspaper printing press blueprints. These materials evidence the news and technologies of the day. I consider this detritus as cultural artefact and celebrate the manual and mechanical gestures inherent in this medium.

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My studio practice is based on the appropriations and re-productions of slippages of newspaper printing.

This method of working I have termed, Repropriation (see note below).

 

NOTE  - Print as Continuum: Repropriation and the Spoils of Multiplicity is the title of my Doctoral dissertation.

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