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Liz Nicol

Rosemary - cyanotype

Rosemary - cyanotype

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Title: Rosemary

Artist: Liz Nicol

Size: 104cm x 75cm

Type: Original Unique Print

Subject: Countryside

Medium: Cyanotype

Framed: Yes - Beautiful Hand Finished Gesso Frame

As part of an interdisciplinary research project “Remember me: the changing face of memorialisation, I began to photograph WW1 monuments, memorial and cemeteries. The significance of flowers and trees was an integral part. I made cyanotypes of Rosemary representing remembrance and memory and the Weeping Willow tree, a tree planted in many cemeteries in Europe and painted by Monet after the loss of his son during WW1. ‘Endlessness’ was exhibited at The Broderick Gallery, Hull School of Art & Design 2018.

“A cyanotype, is a simple and elegant process, involving two chemical compounds: ferric ammonium citrate and potassium ferricyanide. The paper is then dried in the dark and is ready to be placed under a negative (to make a print) or a flat object (to make a photogram) and exposed to the rays of the sun. The only other chemical compound involved is one that is often taken for granted: water. Simply washing the exposed cyanotype brings out the rich blue colour and makes the print permanent.”

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Liz Nicol

Liz Nicol is a photographer who lives and works in Exeter and Venice, recent projects are responses to ‘places of conflict’, including WW1 sites of commemoration (France and Belgium), the politically contested space of the Green Line (Cyprus) and the fragile ecological environment of the salt marshes of the Venetian Lagoon. The photographic element incorporates camera based and camera-less imagery, she predominantly works with black & white photography (analogue) and the historical process of the blueprint, the cyanotype.

Nicol had an established career in education, as a teacher, and a senior manager her later research projects included a residency at Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre (NiMAC) Cyprus that was established between the Land/Water and the Visual Arts research group at Plymouth University and NiMAC, 2013. As one of the co-investigators of Remember Me. The Changing face of Memorialisation, an AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) funded project in collaboration with Hull University (2015–2018), she developed an interest in the national identity of WW1 monuments and flowing from this is her commissioned project on the war cemeteries, designed by Edwin Lutyens.