Silkscreen prints on newsprint paper
black silkscreen ink treated with water and heat
creating stains and patterns that are unique to each print
170 cm x 480 cm (85 cm x 120 cm each print)
Installation
Silkscreen prints on metal wood pedestals
Grange Walk studios London 2015
Stone lithography on newsprint paper
84 cm x 29cm | 2013
Collage photoworks
Gelatin silver prints with herbarium specimens
39.5 cm x 29cm
Installation
Gelatin silver prints with herbarium specimens on wooden frames
120 cm x 270 cm
Dreaming Through exhibition 198 Gallery London I 2012
Installation
Gelatin silver prints with herbarium specimens on wooden frames
164 cm x 210 cm
Queer Paper Gardens exhibition | Museu da Eletricidade Lisbon I 2012
Stone Lithograph
Frans Masereel Centrum 2013
Installation
Silkscreen printed newspaper works on hardcover
77 cm x 120 cm
Art in a bookshell: A survey of artists working with and inspired by books exhibition
Milton Gallery London 2015
Installation
Litho, silkscreen and xerox prints on industrial warehouse components
Unbound exhibition | Herbert Read Gallery, University for the Creative Arts Canterbury 2017
Installation
Silkscreen prints on industrial warehouse components
77 cm x 120 cm
UN8 msdm studio gallery London 2017
Silkscreen print on archival paper
34.5 cm x 24.5 cm | 2013
Installation
Silkscreen printed newspaper works on studio assemblages
77 cm x 120 cm
Paradigm Store exhibition | Howick Place London | 2015
Flora McCallica as a body of work contains printworks, installations and photobookworks. The collages have auto-ethnographic and archaeological references, mixing orphan photographs dated 1958 found in the Lisbon flea market, and botanical specimens from an herbarium dated 1920s discarded by London Kew Gardens. Like pieces of evidence altered by the passage of time, the silkscreen and stone lithography prints have stains and patterns that are unique to each print.
Central to my work is the selection and publication of images in a variety of media, ranging from photobooks to photo-texts, newspapers and multiples. I am interested in the practices of assembling, collecting and archiving and look for intersections of context and narrative. I combine my own photographs with those by other photographers. The sources are diverse, including the Found Photo Foundation and other photographic collections,and so are the publishing formats. Multiplication, collage and decomposition are methods of working that reflect upon notions of authenticity, authorship and the aura of the technologically reproduced work of art.
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The Found Photo Foundation
Orphan Editions
Flora McCallica publications
The Found Photo Foundation in surveys of art photographic practices with photographic collections
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