Signature can be seen in the first image, bottom left. Number is also next to sig, but i didn't take a photo of it.

Got me paranoid there Wiz... just checked it and all is fine.

Phew, indeed.

Cracking image in the flesh.

I asked Helen at White Cube if they had a framed example they could show me. She said they hadn't but Darbyshire had quoted them for framing it in a very simple white box frame. She sent me a picture of a "Suffer Love ll" to give me an idea.

WHAT?

Hi tga

Thanks for your insightful response. As an avid 'mono-printer' I am interested by what you mean - hide behind a mono print? In my experiences of all the printing processes it's the least controlled or manufactured. As a process its very revealing.

Every mark is recorded - mistakes and all. That's integral to Emin's practise, isn't it? The need to reveal all. In that respect is it not the one of the most truthful processes she can work in? Where is the hiding?

There is a web page for everything.....monoprints.com have a pretty description of the priocess/history

www.monoprints.com/info/monoprints.html

John Simpson does amazing monoprints (ink onto glass, and then transferred onto paper using brushes, his hand, etc etc)

Hi rsyok,

A mono-print is a one off. It is usually a picture resulting from a process of ink transfer from a surface onto paper. This can be achieved in a variety of ways , some complicated, such as the use of a printing press, others simply by reverse drawing.

Reverse drawing on ink is the process that I enjoy and I am guessing also Emin uses. The fact it states they are a mono-print is somewhat misleading. The original was a mono-print and these are an edition there of - whether they are giclee, silk screen or lithograph I am not sure.

This is a video I made of me mono-printing a few years back. It seems to a popular demonstration judging by its views. (can't embed it -help anyone?)

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The ink is rolled out. Paper is placed over the ink. When right, the consistency of the ink ensures that it only transfers onto the paper when pressure is applied. This means that any pressure will pick up ink (see the finger/palm print smudges on Emin's). Thats why I use a bridge to rest on. The process gives a reverse result and and will also leave a history of all marks made.




Here are examples of some of my prints here

www.yesyoucanistan.com/Exports.html

Hope all this helps.

cheers


James

Thanks for this, nice demonstration of the technique.

Well done, excellent. Maybe the thumb print will become wanted in years to come who knows??

...puts me in mind of Charles Keeping.

Good idea Winter.

Great printing info and examples James & Stringer quite inspiring to get inky.

Only 18 eminem prints left

and sold, unless people are playing

Its saying sold out?
Unless i'm not on the correct link?...