Carl Rowe

Barrier: After Christiane Baumgartner

Framed woodcut and aluminium signs, 2019

Screen-print
50cm x 70cm
2019

Commission for the Woodlands mental health unit at Ipswich Hospital. Wall painted text and framed screen-prints in the tribunal room.

Photo: Damian griffiths

Commission for the Woodlands mental health unit at Ipswich Hospital. Wall painted text and framed screen-prints in the tribunal room.

Detail from State of Print installation showing Carl Rowe's screen-printed box 'Speed Up and Salivate ++'.

State of Print is a touring exhibition.

Screen-print (using corn carbon ink), painted sticks and chrome-plated couplings
Biblioteca Central, Santander, Spain 2018

Cracking is a play on words. It refers to the process of refining crude oil into hydrocarbons. It also eludes to something that succumbs to pressure. Cracking questions the efficacy and morality of burning hydrocarbons for energy and in particular of consigning staggering quantities of grain for the production of bio-fuel.

Cracking (Detail)
Screen-print (using corn carbon ink), painted sticks and chrome-plated couplings
Biblioteca Central, Santander, Spain 2018

Screen-print using ink made from poppy petals, chocolate and mud
40cm x 30cm 2018

Enemy is an image of a trepanned skull that has been mirrored, indicating in this sense a dual evil or parallel insanity. The image is screen-printed using ink made from poppy petals, chocolate and mud; substances synonymous with World War 1.

Screen-print 2018.
Crop depicts an image of a Colorado beetle; a veracious pest in potato agriculture. It has, over the last century, been weaponised; dropped from military aircraft into farmland.