Mockett, Castor and Pollux
Woodcuts : Cardboard : Scrapbooks
Andrew Mockett
When my three year old comes back from nursery then potato prints and corrugated card models are to be expected. But they are the sorts of thing only a parent could love. Andrew Mockett on the other hand has produced an exhibition that even people that didn’t give birth to him can enjoy.
Printed packaging card cut-out to make models and wood cut-out to make prints of packaging. Clever.
Primary colour. Naïve patterns. Retro-sweet-wrappers. Nostalgic.
The hand made books made collated prints had me thinking….
I keep getting emails from Taschen promoting “Limited edition” art books, often tipping over the thousand pound mark. But they are still made on the same machines that produced any-old book.
On the other hand Mockett’s handmade books are truly limited editions. And you could cut out the pages and sell them separately and make a tidily unscrupulous profit.
The exhibition is in the ever-so-lovely, seafrontally-situated Castor and Pollux gallery-cum-bookshop.
On until 20th April
