Overlap

By Michelle House

Overlap is one in a series of three called the Plan Series. The three artworks were originally shown at The Focus of Craft exhibition at Bargehouse, Oxo Tower with Design Nation as part of London Craft Week in 2019. They were also shown by Contemporary Applied Arts gallery for Focus 21 at the Design Centre Chelsea Harbour during London Design Week in 2021 and at their gallery in Marylebone.

Hand-printed in layers of varying opacity onto linen and using textile printing techniques and photography, Michelle combines a skilful and joyous use of colour with texture to hint at surfaces within architecture. The ‘Plan Series’, was inspired by the footprints of a building, plans, architectural details, geometric forms of structures and the voids in between: the spaces we inhabit, have left behind and pass through. Floating and overlapping geometric forms of vivid red, sugar pink, indigo blue and mint green combine with a subtle stripe pattern and the texture of the linen which gives a bauhaus feel to the work.

The three artworks in the series were printed simultaneously in the studio, a way of working that Michelle prefers, enjoying the relationships and interplay that results during the making of her hand-printed artworks.

Dyes and pigments screen-printed on to linen and stretched over a wooden frame. Framed in a white wooden box frame with anti-reflective glass.

Unframed size – 50 x 50 x 2.5cm
Framed size – 60 x 60 x 5cm