Irish hand dye-transfer artist Jean Curran’s new exhibition at The Horse Gallery, Dublin is inspired by the classic French film,I have always found the darkroom a very special place to be. With photography, having a camera around your neck is a bit like having a passport to venture into places and situations you might not otherwise travel. As a photographer, you have a reason to be there, even if you really don’t.
While my career began in photojournalism, my initial education was in photography and printing in St John’s College, Cork and it’s there that my love of printing began. While I worked within the national and international press, there was always a part of me yearning to get back to the cocoon of the darkroom, where you could really bring things to life.I live and work on my family farm in Co Waterford.
Can you tell us a little about your creative process – dye-transfer printing is something of a lost or dying art and you are one of only a few left …, the dye transfer process is what gave those movies their big, lush colour palettes. It’s also what gave 1940s/1950s America its very distinctive ‘Americana’ palette where tones were bright, clean and crisp.
I’m one of only four artists practicing dye transfer printing in the world today and the only artist globally that uses this printing process as the basis of my artistic practice. Without going too deeply into the technical aspects of the process, I essentially separate a colour image into its red, green and blue channels and then print each layer separately. I then dye each layer either a cyan, magenta or yellow and then roll them one by one onto a sheet of paper to make the print.
Godard/Bardot follows on from your successful exhibition The Vertigo Project, which had the co-operation of the Hitchcock estate. How long did the Godard/Bardot project take from conception to conclusion?is a very special body of work and it was my first venture into taking work from cinematic moving images to photographic prints. I learned a lot from printing that work and working with Universal Studios and the Hitchcock estate that helped me greatly when I began printingin 2021.
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