At the recent Royal Academy Schools annual Premium Interim Projects exhibition, a number of students displayed work produced using large-format printers and projectors at the RA’s on-site Epson sponsored Digital Media Suite.
The show provided an opportunity to view work by the artists at the interim point of their three-year postgraduate fine art studies. All the students have worked with Epson’s large-format printer and/or projectors at some time during their course. Included in the exhibition were:
Rebecca Ackroyd displayed a large curved work made of two closely-positioned freestanding panels carrying a vast digitally printed image of a close-up luxury white bath towel (see image).
Caroline Abbotts used Epson films printed on a large format inkjet printer to produce negative images of the starry sky taken from Earth’s North Celestial Pole. The Epson films are processed manually in huge handmade developing tanks and transferred to glass sheets that are propped against the gallery walls in layered compositions.
Matt Ager combined digitally printed photographic images with clothing, found objects and industrial materials such as plastic sheeting to create wall-based assemblages.
Josie Cockram utilised two Epson projectors to synchronise moving images onto a floating tent-like screen that occupied a centre stage position within one of RA’s historic galleries.
Max Prus combined large painted canvases that contained inkjet-printed collaged details with sound works, texts and digitally printed cut-out sculptural figures.
Epson provides state-of-the-art large format digital printing and AV projection technologies to the Schools so students can experiment with a broad range of media and materials to produce their art works.