Chuck Elliott (b. 1967, Camberwell, London) is a pioneer of digitally generated art. He claims to have used the first Apple Macintosh imported to the UK in 1984, the same year Apple launched the computers with their now infamous Orwellian advertising campaign.
Acquiring his own machine in 1989, he has been drawing, sculpting, editing and compositing digitally ever since. Graduating in 1992, he founded a succession of small, successful studios in London. In 2005 he moved to Bristol, where he now works full time on his sublime, fluid studies in light, colour, motion and liquid geometry.
Delighting in the machines’ ability to hone and craft sculptural drawings, render, edit, mix, cut, paste, sculpt, and re-edit, colour spaces are manipulated, light levels finely tuned, and a myriad of images and series of derivations are produced, using processes analogous to the way in which modern music is realised.
Chuck Elliott is reinterpreting the essence of abstract fine art printmaking for the digital age. Pure logical progression.
Chuck is currently an artist in residence at CFPR exploring the print possibilities of materials such as glass and ceramics.
Editions work in progress – glass workshop lead by artist Angela Thwaites, November 2022
Edition
Capsule, a folio of six hybrid photopolymer etchings
Edition of 12 and image size of 35cm (h) x 34cm (w) on sheet size of 49cm (h) x 48cm (w).
Printmaking processes: Hybrid photopolymer gravure etchings; brush, ink and CAD drawings with digital chine collé and 24k gold leaf embellishments. Printed on 300gsm Somerset Satin and 52gsm Kozo mulberry paper
Capsule 1
Capsule 2
Capsule 3
Capsule 4
Capsule 5
Capsule 6
