Anna Goodchild

'There will always be a residue'  Although this is something Tacita Dean says relating to her efforts at trying to erase  her chalk drawings from black boards, it has, in my opinion, a universal application.  My work focuses on seaweeds found on Torbay beaches after the many storms we have experienced, and calls attention to seaweeds as co-inhabitants rather than as resources. Formed through light, water, and time, they speak to entanglement, loss and absence, and to the responsibility humans bear in shaping the futures of fragile marine worlds.  

This is a photopolymer gravure of a furbellows I found after a storm on Goodrington north beach late last year. It is printed on cartridge paper using intaglio ink in burnt sienna and Prussian blue.

Photopolymer Gravure on Fabriano Rosapina Paper

29x42cm

Framed under glass