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This body of work was created by exploiting the flaws of digital cameras.   The images were created while travelling through the landscape in cars and trains using the camera's panoramic setting.  As the device struggles to capture the passing landscape it glitches resulting in a distorted image of floating tree limbs, strange patterns and exaggerated forms.  The images undergo no post production manipulation, they are purely the result of the camera's efforts to compensate for its own failings.

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etching print trees art simon jaques artist
etching print trees art simon jaques artist

Fracture 

etching on paper

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Column

etching on paper

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etching, print, trees, art, simon jaques, artist

Vortex

etching on paper

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Hybrid Etchings

HYBRID ETCHINGS

Glen Coe, Scotland, art, mountain, simon jaques, artist, print, etching, inkjet print

Glen Coe

etching and inkjet on paper

Simon Jaques, artist, Patagonia, etching, inkjet, printing

Patagonian Forest

etching and inkjet on paper

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Divide

etching and watercolour on paper

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UK,  b.  1980, Lives and works in Penzance, Cornwall

 

Simon Jaques graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art's  MFA programme in 2005.  Prior to that he studied at The Emily Carr Institute in Vancouver, Canada and The Falmouth School of Art. 

Working predominantly as a printmaker Simon's work explores the meeting point between digital technology and traditional printmaking processes.

Much of the work displayed here is made using the integrated camera in a mobile phone - this work began while documenting mobile phone masts that had been camouflaged as pine trees in a peculiar attempt to blend them in with their natural surrounds.  The resulting images were further disguised by being produced as traditional copperplate etchings and paintings.

Simon's work has been widely exhibited in the UK, Europe and South Africa.

 

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Mobile Phone Mast

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Mobile Phone Painting Series

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