Love Ghost (Pink)

DesignerCon is an annual art and design convention that smashes together collectible toys, customs, plush, designer apparel and so much more with urban, underground and pop art! We are a celebration of all aspects from the world of design. Screen printing is a printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil. The attached stencil forms open areas of mesh that transfer ink or other printable materials which can be pressed through the mesh as a sharp-edged image onto a substrate. A roller or squeegee is moved across the screen stencil, forcing or pumping ink past the threads of the woven mesh in the open areas. Screen printing is also a stencil method of print making in which a design is imposed on a screen of silk or other fine mesh, with blank areas coated with an impermeable substance, and ink is forced through the mesh onto the printing surface. It is also known as silkscreen, seriography, and serigraph. The overarching theme within Richard Boyd-Dunlop’s oeuvre is governed by pollination, an evolving narrative that has occurred organically throughout his career. The repeated geometric shapes overlapping organic forms act as a unifying element throughout his body of work. Employing abstract motifs of nature and hero icons of the bee create a symbiotic interplay between nature and humankind, coming together into its own ecosystem dependent on kaleidoscopic pollination. This environmental energy is not only present in paintings shown in previous exhibitions successfully hosted both nationally and internationally over the years, but has also been present in large scale projects investigating sculptural forms. Numerous commercial commissions, furniture design, and his Love Ghost project exemplify this exploration.