Verlaßen und Bleiben, 2019
Lithograph on paper, 76 cm x 56 cm, cabinet, dimensions variable.
Fense, 2018
A series of prints that reference the bibs worn by netball players that indicate positions (WA, GD, C etc.) In my school, only understood by the girls (as boys did not, alas, play netball).
The artworks act as players in a public space I call the ‘Common Ground’ where different “language games” (Wittgenstein) are being played in one playground. I used the image of a fence, playing on ‘offence and ‘defence’. I also make reference to gates (that may be opened or closed):
“A code is not only a rule that closes but also a rule that opens. It not only says ’you must’ but it says also ‘you may’ or ‘it would be possible to do that.”
“The final interpretant is action in the community.”
Umberto Eco, ‘Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language’.
Fense (I), 2018
Silkscreen on paper, 101.6 cm x 137.2 cm
Fense (III), 2018
Silkscreen on paper, 101.6 cm x 137.2 cm
Out of Mind, 2017
Allotment fragment, recovered and repaired. Missing information. Zen. Ridiculous.
Out of Mind II, 2018, Lithograph on paper, 70 cm x 50 cm
Out of Mind, 2017, lithograph on paper. 30 cm x 20 cm
Left, 2017
In heavy industry’s lost-property office, the smell of sleeping oil, the monument that no-one sees. These are the relics of history’s assembly line, stopped, and clocked out.
G4834, 2017. Lithograph on paper. 2x 2. 42 cm x 59.00 cm
TGWGMB, 2018. Aquatint, Sugar-lift aquatint, Spit-bite etching on paper. Plate size: 31 cm x 26.5 cm. Paper size 48.5 cm x 45.5 cm. Artist’s proof.
WW, 2017, woodcut print. Engine oil and ink on paper. 59 cm x 84 cm.
TGWU, 2017, letter press, monotype print. Oil on paper. 29.7 cm x 21 cm
Station Ends, 2016
A series of monotype prints on the melancholia of the railway station. A solitary moment in a public space between trains, between lives.
PN, 2016. Monotype print
Water-soluble graphite on Japanese paper. 15 cm x 20 cm
Multi-panel monotypes from the Station Ends series. Water-soluble graphite on Sanmore paper. Stained ash wood frames.
ST, 2016. Nine panels. 2.7 m x 1.8 m
BNS, 2016. Four panels. 1.9 m x 1.26 m
PN, 2016. Four panels. 1.26 m x 1.9 m
Review:
http://www.artinliverpool.com/review-ed-bruce-stations-ends/
Spire, 2006
Series of etchings, embossments, mono and collotype prints translating ascending architectural glory into descending gothic anxiety.
Welsh Presbyterian: 20 cm x 50 cm
Double SXF: 88 cm x 113 cm
Edward Bruce 