Hammer Chen | The Light Collector, 2023
Copper Photogravure
Media Dimensions: 46 x 55 cm
Image Dimensions: 33 x 40 cm
Edition of 30
Framed/unframed
Hammer Chen is a printmaking artist based in Shanghai and Bristol. Hammer’s work is informed by the idea of memory, travel, and arousing a nostalgic sense through cinematic imagery. She explores how to best echo the transformation from factual documentation to personal perception, through the manipulation of photography on a printmaking matrix. Her images are not only of a lived reality: they are imagined memories rebuilt from collective experiences. Hammer starts from a photographic archive or subjects she is repeatedly drawn to — the light in the dark, the potential interaction of characters. The images are like scenes from a stage set, portraying a reimagining of past times and spaces. The settings are open to interpretation and filled with tension or expectation, the anticipation of what is about to happen. Hammer graduated from UWE Bristol with an MA in Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking. In 2017, she founded the "Wait and Roll Printmaking Studio" in Shanghai, providing workshops and an open space for artists.And she has been promoting new concepts in printmaking practice ever since.In 2021, she was nominated for the Queen Sonja Print Award. Recently, she received the Creativity Award from The Royal West of England Academy and the Bainbridge Print Prize from the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2023.
Copper Photogravure
Media Dimensions: 46 x 55 cm
Image Dimensions: 33 x 40 cm
Edition of 30
Framed/unframed
Hammer Chen is a printmaking artist based in Shanghai and Bristol. Hammer’s work is informed by the idea of memory, travel, and arousing a nostalgic sense through cinematic imagery. She explores how to best echo the transformation from factual documentation to personal perception, through the manipulation of photography on a printmaking matrix. Her images are not only of a lived reality: they are imagined memories rebuilt from collective experiences. Hammer starts from a photographic archive or subjects she is repeatedly drawn to — the light in the dark, the potential interaction of characters. The images are like scenes from a stage set, portraying a reimagining of past times and spaces. The settings are open to interpretation and filled with tension or expectation, the anticipation of what is about to happen. Hammer graduated from UWE Bristol with an MA in Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking. In 2017, she founded the "Wait and Roll Printmaking Studio" in Shanghai, providing workshops and an open space for artists.And she has been promoting new concepts in printmaking practice ever since.In 2021, she was nominated for the Queen Sonja Print Award. Recently, she received the Creativity Award from The Royal West of England Academy and the Bainbridge Print Prize from the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2023.
Copper Photogravure
Media Dimensions: 46 x 55 cm
Image Dimensions: 33 x 40 cm
Edition of 30
Framed/unframed
Hammer Chen is a printmaking artist based in Shanghai and Bristol. Hammer’s work is informed by the idea of memory, travel, and arousing a nostalgic sense through cinematic imagery. She explores how to best echo the transformation from factual documentation to personal perception, through the manipulation of photography on a printmaking matrix. Her images are not only of a lived reality: they are imagined memories rebuilt from collective experiences. Hammer starts from a photographic archive or subjects she is repeatedly drawn to — the light in the dark, the potential interaction of characters. The images are like scenes from a stage set, portraying a reimagining of past times and spaces. The settings are open to interpretation and filled with tension or expectation, the anticipation of what is about to happen. Hammer graduated from UWE Bristol with an MA in Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking. In 2017, she founded the "Wait and Roll Printmaking Studio" in Shanghai, providing workshops and an open space for artists.And she has been promoting new concepts in printmaking practice ever since.In 2021, she was nominated for the Queen Sonja Print Award. Recently, she received the Creativity Award from The Royal West of England Academy and the Bainbridge Print Prize from the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2023.
