ARTIST TALK AT FLOW
24 – 30 June 2025, Millbank Tower, London.
During Unit 3, I was invited as a guest artist to take part in Flow, a group exhibition of printmakers and sculptors at Millbank Tower, Studio 27, 24 – 30 June 2025. The exhibition explored the shifting role of metal in the dialogue between printmaking and sculpture, reconsidering it as a medium of transformation that moves fluidly between tool, matrix, surface, and object. Emphasising process as form, it revealed the moments where tools, actions, objects and materials shift identity.
Alongside exhibiting one of my previous metal sculptures, A Memory of Safety (2024), I delivered an Artist Talk addressing my investigation into hybrid print-sculptures, works that co-opt materials and processes from both sculpture and printmaking to fuse gestural mark-making with sculptural form. I focused on my Transferences (2025) series of hard-ground etching embossments, through which I explored paper as a membrane, akin to the skin of my body, capable of recording both physical and emotional residues. I demonstrated how I created forms through material absence, leaving delicate traces of fragmented memories by scraping zink jet sheets with an etching needle, thereby exploring the interplay between material, memory, and the body.
Delivering this talk was an invaluable opportunity to articulate my research beyond (or in parallel with) the exhibition format for a tailored audience, while strengthening my public speaking and presentation skills.
Fig.1: Delivering an artist talk during Flow exhibition at Millbank Tower, Studio 27, June 2025. Photograph by the author.
Fig.2: Rita Veres, Transferences, 2025. A4 hard-ground etching embossments, 300 gsm soft-white cotton paper, no ink. Photograph by the author.
Fig.3: Rita Veres, Transferences, 2025. A4 hard-ground etching embossments, 300 gsm soft-white cotton paper, no ink. Photograph by the author.
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