The Drunken Boat
Digital pigment print on adhesive fabric, 400 x 289 cm.
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Digital pigment print on Somerset Radiant White Velvet 330gsm, 56 x 76 cm.
‘Le Bateau Ivre’ (‘The Drunken Boat’) is a 100-line verse-poem written in 1871 by Arthur Rimbaud. The poem describes the drifting and sinking of a boat lost at sea in a fragmented first-person narrative saturated with vivid imagery and symbolism. Rimbaud was a French poet who is recognised for his influence on modern literature and the arts, in particular, surrealism.
The work is a development from previous projects and further explores the possibilities of the combination of narrative and cartography on an enlarged scale.
GPS are fortunate to have some of the most advanced digital printmaking resources within Scotland and the UK augmented by fifteen years experience and expertise in the medium since the Digital Suite was first launched in 2003.
The facilities at GPS include both 44" and 60" wide format machines using archival quality pigment inks allowing artists to create very large works at a mural scale using a variety of substrates ranging from traditional papers to adhesive fabric and polymer substrates.
The relative affordability and ease of use of these materials has allowed and encouraged artists over the past decade to explore the use and presentation of digitally created, processed or manipulated imagery as never before both within and without the gallery environment and in both 2D and 3D.
