Mark Titchner speaks about the inspiration behind our latest collaborative project, the ‘IT’S THE HOPE THAT KEEPS US HERE’ limited charity edition published by Atelier JI in collaboration with BUILDHOLLYWOOD to benefit EveryYouth.

We worked with Titchner to produce two colourways of limited edition pigment prints of his ‘IT'S THE HOPE THAT KEEPS US HERE’ artworks, which featured on billboards across the UK this January as a part of BUILDHOLLYWOOD’s Your Space Or Mine project.

100% of the profits from each print sold will be donated to EveryYouth, who work with brilliant front-line organisations across the UK to break down barriers for young people experiencing homelessness.

Inspired by the colours of the sun and sky, Fleur Dempsey’s ‘Yellow and’ and ‘Blue and’ screenprinted limited editions were printed using positives Dempsey carefully painted at our studio and specially formulated inks. In her new screenprints, bands of impasto skirted by ruled lines of graphite ink beautifully translate the materiality and gesture of her paintings to print.

Screenprinting requires the creation of stencils from positive images on transparent sheets. When creating autographic screenprints, artists can create entirely original artworks specific to the medium. By drawing, painting, and splattering, the artists' mark-making vocabularies are evidenced in the printed layers of each edition.

The ‘Mosul Museum’ series, produced after Secunda visited Mosul in 2018, is a continuation of his decade-long project documenting the deliberate cultural destruction worldwide, and depict the devastation of the city’s Cultural Museum by ISIS during their occupation, which began in 2014.

Charcoal produced by the fires lit by ISIS was collected from the ruins by Secunda and soldiers from the Iraqi Army, and upon returning to his studio, was mixed with alcohol and gum Arabic to form the unique inks used in the ‘Mosul Museum’ drawings.

Atelier JI has had the honour of collaborating with Secunda to reproduce the drawings as photogravure etchings using the ink made from the collected Mosul Museum charcoal. Each print was individually hand-finished by Secunda at our studio and packaged alongside a vial of the same charcoal.

Over the past month, we’ve had the pleasure of working with Phil Hale and First Thursday to produce ‘ENEMY’, a limited edition archival pigment print. The edition of 100 was printed at Atelier JI on Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl stock and has a beautiful reflective quality, capturing the depth of the original oil painting.

Footage courtesy First Thursday and Phil Hale.

In an exclusive interview by Dan Fontanelli for Atelier JI, Conor Harrington talks about the themes behind his latest edition, ‘The Blind Exit’, released by HENI.