Artist recreates photographs by printing on paper edge

Artist Elizabeth Gossling is exhibiting three works of art using print on paper at her show in the B&N Gallery in London.

The exhibition, entitled Horizontal Vision, explores the relationship between print and the technical image and recreates photographs of television screens taken by John Cura for his book series Television Picture Faults.

The images were printed by Connekt Colour on flat sheets using the company’s Speedmaster SM 102 five-colour press before being fanned and trimmed on a Polar 115 guillotine to give a repeat image down the angled side of the stack. Each image is made up of around 4,000 sheets of paper.

Gossling is in her final year of a Masters in Fine Art Printmaking at the Royal College of Art.

She said: "Six years ago I worked part-time in a print factory in the finishing department. I spotted the formations of patterns across the stacks of printed sheets and discovered this came from the colour bars, which hit the edge of the paper and were later trimmed away.

"I realised that an image could also appear by using borderless printing. I completed some trials with offcuts that were lying around the factory and developed a way of angling a stack so that when trimmed, the whole image appeared across the edges of the paper."

The exhibition, which closes on the 24 November, has been sponsored by Connekt Colour, Materials Technology, Lumi and Paper Co.