Primera - Hand pulled Serigraph (screenprint) from Greymouth artists Colby Smith and Stephen Tschopp from Safran House
Limited edition - individually numbered and signed
EDITION SIZE: 7 colour variants of ca.15 pieces each APROXIMATE PRINT AREA: 62 x 28cm PAPERS IN EDITION: 330gsm Kraftpak (brown recycled) and some 1600gsm Bookbinders Cover Board (grey, recycled) VARIANTS: 6 Green/Lime/Red • Snow/Grey/Hawthorne • Pink/Purple/SunGold • Yellow/Blue/Lagoon • Turquoise/Snow/Brown • LiteBlue/Blue/Red • plus Red/Yellow/Moss
DEPICTION: A contemplative first-generation immigrant, their gaze fixed directly at the viewer. Dressed in a big-city-mix of casual yet chic attire, hands at the sides, long hair curled into a bun. A loose-net-knit top under a reflective jacket, dark casual pants. They wear trainers, a beaded armband and large earrings. This figure is loosely based on a member of the politically active hip-hop and fantifa (Feminist Anti-Fascist Action) community. A vignette is near the bottom right corner with the print number and artists signature and the text ‘Free The Refugee • Babsi Rabiata • Unity’ plus ‘mahia a ringa • wortfaul • aotearoa’ and ‘Punk’ in Cantonese calligraphy. The background is printed with a coarse large particle gold glitter. This is part of an indeterminate series of characters representing a vision of friends, accomplices and comrades; An imagined crew that cares little about where you’re from, but much about where you’re going. It is a celebration and visualisation of non-anglophone immigrant communities and tangata tiriti in contemporary Aotearoa | New Zealand cultural spaces.
