Translation - After Christiane Baumgartner

Woodcut print on paper with airport runway signage Carl Rowe 2019 The woodcut element for Translation - After Christiane Baumgartner was originally made for the exhibition We Came Here to Conquer at the Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery in 2017. The woodcut depicts a wartime photograph of the Intercept Control Room at Bletchley Park. The particular rendering of this image is in reference to Christiane Baumgartner’s photo-mechanical woodcut technique, which resonated conceptually with the over-mounting of a 19C engraved copy of Albrecht Dürer’s (16C) St Jerome in his Study when the work was installed for We Came Here to Conquer. For New Skin Old Ceremonies, A framed copy of Translation - After Christiane Baumgartner has been wall-mounted and viewers are guided by graphic signs (screen-printed on aluminium) which depict the standardised international warning of the boundaries of an airport runway.