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Articles> Brigitte Anne Hague
It’s
a spring morning and Brigitte Anne Hague’s studio on the outskirts
of Norwich in Norfolk is in full swing. Once a garage, today it houses two
silkscreen printing tables, a UV light box and several drying racks; all
bought second-hand through classified advertisements and off the internet.
The smaller of the tables is stacked high with scrap paper and prep work;
the larger table – an impressive 1.4 by 2.25m – is proving too
small for Brigitte’s needs and she calls on her husband Stuart to
help.
Together they carry a 1.4 by 3.5m stretched canvas into the house where
Brigitte sets to work on it on an extra-large kitchen table. Without the
silkscreen printing table’s frame and mechanical arm to help keep
everything in place, Brigitte is forced to improvise. Once more she enlists
Stuart’s help, affectionately referring to him as her ‘techie’.
He holds the silkscreen steady while Brigitte applies the ink with her 1-metre
squeegee.
It is nerve-wracking work. Not only does Stuart have to help prevent the
canvas from slipping, he also has to manipulate the distance of the screen
from the canvas in order to produce the ‘snap’ Brigitte needs
in order to lay down a clean, perfect, mark. The piece Brigitte is now working
on follows in the wake of another 1.4 x 3.5m artwork, Carpe Diem, commissioned
earlier this year by property development company Targetfollow for its Bernard
Street offices in London. Using a combination of painting and silkscreen
printing techniques, she has set herself the challenge of producing works
whose dimensions are far from ordinary for a silkscreen.
‘Technically, it’s difficult,’ she confesses. ‘A
lot of people wouldn’t even try to do it.’
When she was first invited to undertake the Targetfollow commission, Brigitte
toyed with the idea of creating a paper-based triptych, but because the
foyer of the Bernard Street building was large and spacious, the commission
soon became all about scale...
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