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Recent small works created to exhibit at the Art Car Boot Fair with Smithson Projects. 

Each print is from an A/P of a total of 5. When all are sold I will not be creating these again at this size and they are at the Art Car Boot Fair price of £75 only - usually would be priced at £95

Works are fine art archival prints on Hahnemulle German Etching paper 
Size: 21 x 30 cm 
Signed and numbered. 

Gina Cross is a multi-disciplinary artist and curator whose work investigates the relationships between space, form, colour and light. 

Gina’s current work is focused on working with paper and metal to create sculptural works alongside using photography as a core part of her practice to document the ephemeral nature of form and the interaction of light and colour. The results are a mixture of photographic prints and physical artworks on paper and metal. 

Gina states that ‘my work is inspired and influenced by many factors including the sculptural qualities of some haute couture, architecture, the play of light and shadow. All of my work is fundamentally concerned with the relationship of space, colour, light and form.’

Since 2022 Gina has been working on reclaimed copper plate, photo etching the plates with textures and shapes that are derived from her own photographs and manipulations. The metal undergoes chemical processes to transfer the imagery on to the plate, and Gina embraces the imperfections that happen in this process that are adding themselves to the existing history engraved in the metal.

Colour is applied through a number of processes, including mono printing, screen printing stencilled shapes and enamel spray paint, working intuitively and not to a plan. 

The reflective surface acts as the spacial element in the compositions, helping the applied colours shine but also they reflect the light and colour of their surroundings, and in that sense they come alive. 

These works were recently shown at the London Original Print Fair 2024 and are currently created for commissions and gallery shows. 

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Beginning with large sheets of paper, I create sweeping gestural marks directly with a knife to create new dynamic, unplanned shapes. Once the paper has been sliced, I then work intuitively with the paper - cutting, slicing, pinning and slotting the pieces together to create new sculptural forms. This part of the practice is playful and unselfconscious - allowing the process to dictate the results while being connected to the physical experience of making and responding to each stage as it develops. 

What emerges are ephemeral sculptural works that I photograph in the studio using mostly light and colour filters to capture the shapes and shadows that each variation reveals. These become studies of space, colour, light and form while I focus in on the compositional interactions of shapes created through the playful process. I am also reminded of plants and leaves and how they move together. The intention is to record these shapes as they interact together in a moment in time, while also embracing any imperfections of the paper and sometimes capturing the movement of the paper in the studio breeze. 

There is an intimacy to the works as they themselves are fleeting moments in time. For me, these works have become a personal meditation on intimacy, tenderness and non-verbal connection. 

A collection of paper and colour studies. All are one-off pieces.