any which way ('speak modernity')
2013
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
2013
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
any which way ('speak modernity') is a 2013 by Jo Stockham, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Jo Stockham’s print mixes old and new. It’s a seven-layer screenprint using photos and digital tools. She stacks images to blur the line between real space and digital space. The work comes from her time at the Royal College of Art. Stockham trained as a sculptor first, so her prints often feel solid even when they’re flat. Want to see more? Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The 2013 screenprint *any which way ('speak modernity')* by Jo Stockham combines seven layers of photographic halftone and varnish with hand-drawn positives in cyan, magenta, yellow, and black, reworking a 1940s Bakelite Plastics advertisement to contrast Modernist geometric forms with digitally derived imagery. Hands appear to grasp outlined shapes on the left, while floating colored forms occupy the right side, reflecting Stockham’s exploration of digital and traditional print techniques. The work examines the intersection of virtual and real space through layered processes and…
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