I checked out Rodney Bailey's work in the Eye Play exhibition at the Bankside Gallery today. There are two pieces in the exhibition - Map Man and Self Portrait 1992 - both screenprints.
Both utilise map references to suggest the way in which the outline of our identity is partially formed by the locations where we are born and choose to live. The sketchy nature and minimalist colouring of these works suggests that our personal map references, while affecting our make-up, still do not define us.
Eye Play, as a whole, is an eclectic showcase for printmakers. A playground for the latest prints in town in which practitioners who are chalk and cheese in style and normal practice but who use printmaking in their work rub shoulders with one another.
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