On
the 4th November 2013, the university welcomed another artist.
Alex Brady
Monday 4th November 2013
Monday 4th November 2013
Printer and illustrator Alex Brady. She does screen and digital prints, and by the time she was finishing university she was shaping and printing onto cardboard
and tried looping animation. With fellow graduates they opened the gallery Vanilla Galleries in Loughborough, this
is in collaboration to the Two Queens
gallery in Leicester. She got entered in a national competition where the
applicants had to design a scarf to promote where they were, for Brady this was
Loughborough and she did everything associated with it, overall she came 3rd.
From this she got offered a tip to Italy where she stayed for 18 months being a
colourist print archive but later decided that she needed to focus on her own
work. After hearing Bob Dylan’s song Desolation
Row, she began to focus on the lyrics to create a visual of 28 lino
cuttings. She then went on to self-publish these but had to make some changes
as she could not get copyright, so renamed it Ordinary
Street and rewrote the lyrics to something similar. Since, she was given a new
project of grief which she looked into death to create lino cut book plates. To
make it more interesting she looked into unusual deaths such as the dancing
plague of 1518, she turned them into Ex Libris and put them together to form a
book. The most recent project she is working on is a water story sequence that she is trying to
develop. She has stated that she is looking to develop skills and refresh old
ones to give her work more depth.
Alex Brady, Mal de Mer - Page Two
I
find her work interesting this is from the amount of detail that she has
inputted on the picture; personally I think that this gives the each piece
depth. It tells a story and I can see what she is trying to get across, an
understanding. Due to it only being block colours it doesn't make the piece less interesting as the detail provides the information. I prefer her way of printing as a form of illustration to that of a normal illustrated book as they are getting unexciting and repetitive. The
time and technique put into each piece makes it that special and unique.
Alex Brady, Marin of Aragon Bookplate
Alex Brady, Original Street Publication
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