The huge advances in digital printing technology in recent years have led to a explosion in the number of artists generating exciting and ground-breaking digital prints, and a massive baseline shift in the scope and quality of the work itself.
While four colour reprographic printing allowed artists to produce large number multiple facsimile copies of their work, digital printing, in the sense that we understand and employ it, is something rather different.
We see the computer and digital printer as a most exciting generative tool in its own right. Coriander only publishes the work of artists who take a fundamental interest and involvement in making their digital prints and for whom the print will ultimately be a finished artwork in its own right.
Ivor Abrahams A Parliament of Owls
Digital Print 2005
In creating a digital or giclee print, an image is generated in a computer. This can take any number of forms, for example original works can be scanned and edited, a number of disparate elements can be combined as a collage or images can be generated from scratch using a drawing or photo-editing suite.
As soon as the artist is happy with the image, there is a process of proofing and colour matching before the exact desired result is achieved. Once this is perfect, a high-precision large scale inkjet printer prints it onto similarly dense and heavy paper to that used in screen printing.
In many cases the artist will then choose to enhance and deepen the colours in the print by screen-printing a glaze over the top of it. In addition, some artists choose to hand paint or collage onto the prints, or apply finishes such as leaf or glitter.
Once the artist is completely satisfied with the work, he will sign and number the edition. All digital prints produced at Coriander are made in limited editions, which means that only a certain, relatively small number are ever produced, typically between 25 and 500, and then the digital artwork is destroyed. This safeguards the exclusive nature of the prints.
While four colour reprographic printing allowed artists to produce large number multiple facsimile copies of their work, digital printing, in the sense that we understand and employ it, is something rather different.
We see the computer and digital printer as a most exciting generative tool in its own right. Coriander only publishes the work of artists who take a fundamental interest and involvement in making their digital prints and for whom the print will ultimately be a finished artwork in its own right.
Ivor Abrahams A Parliament of Owls
Digital Print 2005
In creating a digital or giclee print, an image is generated in a computer. This can take any number of forms, for example original works can be scanned and edited, a number of disparate elements can be combined as a collage or images can be generated from scratch using a drawing or photo-editing suite.
As soon as the artist is happy with the image, there is a process of proofing and colour matching before the exact desired result is achieved. Once this is perfect, a high-precision large scale inkjet printer prints it onto similarly dense and heavy paper to that used in screen printing.
In many cases the artist will then choose to enhance and deepen the colours in the print by screen-printing a glaze over the top of it. In addition, some artists choose to hand paint or collage onto the prints, or apply finishes such as leaf or glitter.
Once the artist is completely satisfied with the work, he will sign and number the edition. All digital prints produced at Coriander are made in limited editions, which means that only a certain, relatively small number are ever produced, typically between 25 and 500, and then the digital artwork is destroyed. This safeguards the exclusive nature of the prints.