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Amber Moir

Recent Monotypes, 2022

My intention for the series was to investigate what abstract forms are able to convey, while simultaneously balancing playfulness with restraint and simplicity in the painting of the plates.


Amber Moir
b. 1990
Swellendam, South Africa


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Recent Monotypes, 2021

‘The Syllable Series is made up of sixteen monotypes that explore the potential meaning of formal elements and their relationship to one another. As with the sounds of a syllable, the works stand on their own as extracted elements of a whole. My intention for the series was to investigate what abstract forms are able to convey, while simultaneously balancing playfulness with restraint and simplicity in the painting of the plates. Each work offers an interaction between colour, form and composition by isolating what would usually be a singular element or section of my larger fabric works.’ – Amber Moir, 2022

Amber Moir’s practice is characterised by its unconventional approach to printmaking through exploring and reconstituting the limitations of traditional watercolour monotype techniques. Moir’s large works are the result of the physical and unpredictable process of printing with a manual pitch roller. She says of her method: “The challenges within my process create space for the works to acquire greater meaning and be more successful than if it were predictable and easily controlled”. Original paintings are impressed onto calico, creating a confluence of painting and print. Gashes, strips of folded fabric and uneven printed surfaces serve as visual cues of the presence of Moir’s body in her process. 

Moir (b. 1990, South Africa) graduated from Stellenbosch University with a degree in Fine Arts in 2014. She returned in late 2017 after two years of working and living on Kyushu Island, Japan and has since presented three solo exhibitions: In Praise of Shadows (2019), Along the Line (2020) and Composition by Field (2021) all at Salon 91 Gallery in Cape Town.

Works

Syllable One
Watercolour Monotype on BFK Rives
Image size: 9 x 11 cm
Paper size: 29.5 x 25 cm

R3 200
Syllable Two
Watercolour Monotype on BFK Rives
Image size: 16 x 13 cm
Paper size: 37 x 30 cm

R3 800
Syllable Three
Watercolour Monotype on BFK Rives
Image size: 16 x 12 cm
Paper size: 37 x 28 cm

R3 800
Syllable Four
Watercolour Monotype on BFK Rives
Image size: 16 x 12 cm
Paper size: 37 x 28 cm

R3 800
Syllable Five
Watercolour Monotype on BFK Rives
Image size: 9 x 11 cm
Paper size: 30 x 25 cm

R3 200
Syllable Six
Watercolour Monotype on BFK Rives
Image size: 13 x 16 cm
Paper size: 36 x 31 cm

R3 800
Syllable Seven
Watercolour Monotype on BFK Rives
12 x 9.5 cm

Full bleed print
R3 730 framed
Syllable Eight
Watercolour Monotype on BFK Rives
Image size: 16 x 13 cm
Paper size: 37 x 29 cm

R3 800
Syllable Nine
Watercolour Monotype on BFK Rives
Image size: 17 x 13 cm
Paper size: 38 x 29 cm

R4 200
Syllable Ten
Watercolour Monotype on BFK Rives
Image size: 17.5 x 15 cm
Paper size: 39 x 32 cm

R4 200
Syllable Eleven
Watercolour Monotype on BFK Rives
Image size: 21.5 x 17 cm
Paper size: 44.5 x 35 cm

R4 500
Syllable Twelve
Watercolour Monotype on BFK Rives
Image size: 17.5 x 15 cm
Paper size: 38.5 x 32.5 cm

R4 200
Syllable Thirteen
Watercolour Monotype on BFK Rives
Image size: 16 x 12.5 cm
Paper size: 37 x 28.5 cm

R3 800
Syllable Fourteen
Watercolour Monotype on BFK Rives
Image size: 16 x 13 cm
Paper size: 37 x 30 cm

R3 800
Syllable Fifteen
Watercolour Monotype on BFK Rives
10.5 x 9 cm
Full bleed print

R3 730 framed
Syllable Sixteen
Watercolour Monotype on BFK Rives
Image size: 16 x 12 cm
Paper size: 37 x 28 cm

R3 800

Process

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