2013. Diptych, each print: 565 x 410 mm. Monoprints with black indian ink. Unique within a series of 75. Signed and numbered. Continuing to explore their investigation into self-portraiture Tim Noble & Sue Webster have produced work for Portraits from the Bottom Up including an edition of ten bronze works and a series of unique monoprints. In this series of unique prints, the artists use their own bodies as human printing machines, printing directly onto Somerset Velvet 300gsm paper. ‘If they say that necessity is the mother of invention, then the original concept for this obscene series of body part prints was born from just that. During a residency on one of the most beautifully passive and colourful of the Caribbean Islands – we found ourselves banished in order to create. Unfortunately this idyll rendered us impotent and we retracted back into our darkened room and turned to our bodies for inspiration.’ Sue Webster.
