MULTIPLE WORKING

© The Artist

MULTIPLE WORKING 1997

Darren Almond (1971 – )

Details

Dimension
73 X 89.9 CM
Media
SCREENPRINT
Accession number
P6913

Summary

Multiple Working is part of the portfolio Screen. Almond commissioned British Rail to make a cast aluminum nameplate, bearing his own name in the exact type face and form as that used on the InterCity 125 trains. These trains had a diesel locomotive at either end, and were therefore called a ‘multiple coupling’; the title of Almonds’s print also references the fact that prints are multiple.

In Print Contemporary Art from the Paragon Press, The British Council 2001, TEXT © Patrick Elliott

Further reading:

Contemporary Art in Print, Booth Clibborn Editions, London 2001. Texts by Jeremy Lewison and Patrick Elliott, foreword by Charles Booth-Clibborn

 

Glossary

  • Cast

    To form material such as molten metal, liquid plaster or liquid plastic into a three-dimensional shape, by pouring into a mould. Also see Lost-wax casting.

  • Contemporary

    Existing or coming into being at the same period; of today or of the present. The term that designates art being made today.

  • Portfolio

    A set of pictures (as drawings, photographs or prints) either bound in book form or loose in a folder. These can be by the same artist or individual works by a selection of artists. The term also refers to the folder which holds the set.

Portfolio