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    Clayton Tremlett Why Do You Make Art?: Beard and Influence

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    Clayton Tremlett enjoys printmaking because it allows for experimentation with materials and processes through challenging traditional techniques. He was originally drawn to multi-color reduction linocuts because of the textural beauty of layered ink. More recently, he has developed a technique called Laser Resist Etching that combines photography, Photoshop, and photocopying. While he studied painting originally, the uncontrolled magic of the first print proof eventually drew him to printmaking. He finds inspiration in historical records that make the past more tangible, like old books from the Public Records Office in Melbourne detailing prisoners' appearances and crimes.

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    Clayton Tremlett enjoys printmaking because it allows for experimentation with materials and processes through challenging traditional techniques. He was originally drawn to multi-color reduction linocuts because of the textural beauty of layered ink. More recently, he has developed a technique called Laser Resist Etching that combines photography, Photoshop, and photocopying. While he studied painting originally, the uncontrolled magic of the first print proof eventually drew him to printmaking. He finds inspiration in historical records that make the past more tangible, like old books from the Public Records Office in Melbourne detailing prisoners' appearances and crimes.

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    Clayton Tremlett enjoys printmaking because it allows for experimentation with materials and processes through challenging traditional techniques. He was originally drawn to multi-color reduction linocuts because of the textural beauty of layered ink. More recently, he has developed a technique called Laser Resist Etching that combines photography, Photoshop, and photocopying. While he studied painting originally, the uncontrolled magic of the first print proof eventually drew him to printmaking. He finds inspiration in historical records that make the past more tangible, like old books from the Public Records Office in Melbourne detailing prisoners' appearances and crimes.

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    Clayton Tremlett

    Why do you make art?


    For me art making is about identifying connections and commonalities in life
    experience. In more recent years my practice is about examining history and
    drawing from events or people that influence my identity, to make works that
    encourage others to reflect on who they are.
    I enjoy aesthetic challenges and also like to make print projects that use the
    printing industry or printed matter like wallpaper or stamps as a historical
    context.
    Whats your relationship to printmaking?
    Its about experimentation with materials and processes, by challenging or
    corrupting a traditional technique and cultivating something personal.
    When I started printmaking, my focus was multi-colour reduction linocuts (up to
    twenty colours) because of the textural beauty I found in the layering of ink.
    For my most recent series Beard and Influence I have advanced a technique Im
    calling Laser Resist Etching which combines photography, Photoshop and the
    photocopier to make a new form of photo etching.
    How did you get interested in printmaking?
    I suspect it was subconscious connection with my fathers practice of carving
    leather. As a child, I recall watching him use a swivel knife and tools to
    effortlessly cut and sculpt leather which has many parallels to carving lino with a
    scalpel and then removing the waste with gauges.
    Originally I studied as a painter but the processes of printmaking, particularly the
    excitement of the reversed and uncontrolled magic of the first proof, eventually
    got me.
    Who is your favourite artist?
    Favourite is a transient thing. Many artists have been very influential depending
    on their ideas and technical skills. I admire artists for their individual pursuit of a
    personal expression and this translates across many disciplines. If I had to name
    a favourite sustained influence it would be the electronic music of Kraftwerk and
    their conscious aesthetic as it relates to visual art.
    What is your favourite artwork?
    This too is transient and dependant on a particular changing set of receptive
    moments in life. Recently I travelled with my family to Vietnam and was
    overwhelmed with the technique of lacquer engraving on panels. Although it is
    an old technique it was a new experience for me and for a time my most
    favourite type of work because of its combination of carving and painting.

    In my hall at home is a portrait of Captain Cook by Rew Hanks. I particularly


    enjoy looking at this work because of its technical skill and confidence with the
    medium.
    Where do you go for inspiration?
    More recently that would be the Public Records Office in Melbourne.
    History is tangible when you are holding a book that is over a hundred and forty
    years old with detailed information on a prisoners appearance, crime,
    punishment, religion, occupation and tattoos.
    Crime and Punishment and Inking Up are artist book projects that explore
    prisoners held in the old Castlemaine Goal. Crime and Punishment focused on
    the types of sentences you could get for misdemeanours like riding your bicycle
    on the footpath (one day), whileInking Up highlights tattoos favoured by a
    selection of prisoners in the 1890s the most common being an anchor between
    the thumb and forefinger.

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