These woodcuts are based on a series of drawings of mathematical knots that I made after reading an article about Lisa Piccirillo, a mathematician who has recently solved the “Conway Knot” problem. Seeing a drawing of the Conway Knot on first glance had an uncanny likeness to some looping drawings I had been making and this led me to begin a new series of artworks.
Last spring I approached Mark Johnsen and Sara-Jeanne Bourget at Patio Press editions and we worked together to produce a suite of prints based on eight different knot drawings that were rasterized and then laser cut on fir and mahogany blocks, in a varied edition of twenty four, one and two colours prints.
Knot One (Conway Knot) 02, 2021
ink on paper, 31 x 24 cm
Knot One (Conway Knot) 03, 2021
ink on paper, 31 x 24 cm
Knot Two 01, 2021
ink on paper, 31 x 24 cm
Knot Two 02, 2021
ink on paper, 31 x 24 cm
Knot Two 03, 2021
ink on paper, 31 x 24 cm
Knot Three (Looper) 01, 2021
ink on paper, 31 x 24 cm
Knot Three (Looper) 02, 2021
ink on paper, 31 x 24 cm
Knot Three (Looper) 03, 2021
ink on paper, 31 x 24 cm
Knot Four 01, 2021
ink on paper, 31 x 24 cm
Knot Four 03, 2021
ink on paper, 31 x 24 cm
Knot Five 01, 2021
ink on paper, 25 x 21 cm
Knot Five 02, 2021
ink on paper, 25 x 21 cm
Knot Five 03, 2021
ink on paper, 25 x 21 cm
Knot Six 01, 2021
ink on paper, 25 x 21 cm
Knot Six 02, 2021
ink on paper, 25 x 21 cm,
Collection: Tam and Rosalind Irving
Knot Six 03, 2021
ink on paper, 25 x 21 cm
Knot Six (04), 2021
ink on paper, 25 x 21 cm
Knot Six (double pass), 2021
ink on paper, 25 x 21 cm, Collection Marian Penner Bancroft
Knot Seven (02), 2021
ink on paper, 25 x 21 cm
Knot Seven (01), 2021
ink on paper, 25 x 21 cm
Knot Seven (03), 2021
ink on paper, 25 x 21 cm
Knot Seven (Chine collé), 2021
ink on paper, 25 x 21 cm
Knot Eight (01), 2021
ink on paper, 24 x 20 cm
Knot Eight (03), 2021
ink on paper, 24 x 20 cm