Prudence Ainslie – Compressive Force – down

ABOUT THIS ARTWORK

Compressive Force – up and Compressive Force – down

“A pure compression form – an arch is held in place by the weight of all of its members”

For almost half a century, the Aylesbury estate has been at the centre of Britain’s unresolved arguments about class segregation in cities, about whether architecture can cause social dysfunction. “Compressive Force – up” and “Compressive Force – down” reinterprets the semi-demolished areas of the estate that are subsequently under regeneration. In these prints, hollow architectural studies are interlaced with a series of supporting woodcut arches, framing cloudscape vistas that continue to break through into the deserted spaces.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Prudence Ainslie is primarily a printmaker. She documents places with the intention of re-analysing the act of seeing. For her the viewing experience is absorbed through process and the re-working of multiple media – By folding, layering, and abstracting to create subtle illusions and construct tangible worlds that allude to the original space. There is an interrogation of the fluctuation between the reading of the two-dimensional and three-dimensional.

Her images often bring together the traditional 20th century woodcut and contemporary digital printing methods, exploiting the subtle layering of contrasting print media.

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