Icarus II

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Hand-pulled 4-colour screenprint edition at (750 x 750 mm) on hand-pressed Somerset Velvet Black 280gsm archival cotton rag paper. Each piece is hand guilded with real 23.5 karat red gold leaf. Signed, titled & numbered /6 with /4 artist proofs, total of 10 artworks. Inked and built with the excellent Lucie at HEX prints in London.

*the artwork above is a cropped portion of the completed piece only and not representational of the entirety of the artwork. Icarus II will be revealed at the end of September. Thank you.

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Icarus 3000

Hand-pulled 5-colour screenprint edition at (750 x 750 mm) on hand-pressed Somerset Newsprint 250gsm archival cotton rag paper. Signed, titled & numbered /100. Inked and built with the excellent Lucie at HEX prints in London..

Based on ‘Hedgehog Space’ mathematics - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehog_space

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Europe Ozymandias

‘Any group, any civilisation, any world that did not run to seize the future and shape it was doomed to dust away, to become the past.’

‘My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.’

Hand-pulled screenprint fine art edition (56 x 76 cm) on hand-pressed Somerset Velvet 250gsm archival rough-edged cotton rag paper. matte charcoal ink. Signed, titled & numbered /100.

Inked and built with the excellent Lucie at HEX prints in London.

The Alleys of Your Mind

Hand-pulled 1-colour screenprint edition at (56 x 76 cm) on hand-pressed Somerset Velvet Black 250gsm archival rough-edged cotton rag paper. offwhite/grey ink. Signed, titled & numbered /100.

Eternity

Hand-pulled screenprint fine art edition at 56 x 76 cm on hand-pressed Somerset Velvet 250gsm archival rough-edged cotton rag paper. matte charcoal ink. Signed, titled & numbered /100. Inked with the glittering Aida Wilde in London. Thank you.

Escher’s Acid. Escher’s Nightmare.

Hand-pulled 1-colour screenprint edition at (70 x 84 cm) on hand-pressed Light-grey 250gsm archival puur cotton rag paper. Signed, titled & numbered /25. Each piece is uniquely water damaged and distressed. Inked and built with Lucie at HEX prints in London.

*As every piece of Escher’s Acid. Escher’s Nightmare. is unique, please understand you will recieve one selected by myself at random. If you wish to choose a specific piece, please email me. Thank you.

Sleep

Sculpted wax head, shattered and then photographed. The head was finally reassembled back to it’s original state. Sleep is fragile and temporary.
John Foxx & John Karborn. 2019

Pleasure & Beauty

Spraypaint and letters etched out by hand with a rusty nail on london street paving slab. By KARBORN + MOBSTR 2018. Thanks to James Duffy and Josh Jones for commissioning this piece for Retts Syndrome rettuk.org charity auction.

£2000 SOLD