Third Culture - Hand pulled Serigraph (screenprint) from Greymouth artists Colby Smith and Stephen Tschopp from Safran House
Limited edition - individually numbered and signed
EDITION SIZE: 6 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 Snow/Pink/Lagoon
DEPICTION: A Third Culture Individual in forward pose, gesturing ‘3’ with both hands at the ready to signal a defiant ‘Fuck You’ to elements of both the old and the new. Their gaze is fixed directly at the viewer. Dressed in a big-city summer-mix of casual clothing, arms crossed and hands outstretched in gesture. A baseball cap with FU embroidered on the front, a patterned sports hoodie, wristwatch and ¾ length pants with pavement sneakers. A vignette is near the bottom right corner with the print number and artists signature and the text ‘Third Culture Peeps • Unity • Pride’ 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.
