Icarus ☵

Handmade 4-colour screenprint edition at (750 x 750 mm) on Somerset Velvet Black 280gsm archival cotton rag paper. Each piece is guilded with real 23.5 karat red gold leaf. Signed, titled & numbered /6 with /4 artist proofs.

*the relatively high price of this piece in comparison to my other work is mainly due to the quantity of real gold used in the creation of this artwork.

Funny how flying feels like falling.⁣

Icarus 3000

Handmade 5-colour screenprint edition at (750 x 750 mm) on hand-pressed Somerset Newsprint 250gsm archival cotton rag paper. Signed, titled & numbered /100.

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

*a splash.

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.’

Handmade 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.

Too Many Faces

Artwork of oil paint, photographic collage and glass at (19 x 25 cm) Signed, titled & original 1/1.

The Alleys of Your Mind

Handmade 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

‘Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.’

Handmade 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.

Escher’s Acid. Escher’s Nightmare.

Handmade 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.

*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