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Cecile Elstein, The Sisyphus Suite, 1979-80

Artist: Cecile Elstein (b. 1938)

Title: The Sisyphus Suite

Year: 1979-80

Medium: Series of eight screenprints

Dimensions: Various

Acquisition info:

Cecile Elstein (b. 1938, Cape Town, South Africa) is a printmaker, sculptor, and environmental artist based in Didsbury, South Manchester. In the 1980s, Elstein worked at the Manchester Print Workshop with the Master Printer Kip Gresham. The Workshop was based at the University of Salford until 1985. The Sisyphus Suite joins two works from Elstein already in the Collection made during this time, Small Offering (1980) and A Letter from Mrs Gould (1981).

The Sisyphus Suite was generously gifted to the University of Salford Art Collection from Cecile Elstein Studio Ltd in 2023.

The title page of The Sisyphus Suite series, with text and a red, blue and black motif. — Cecile Elstein, Cover Page from The Sisyphus Suite, 1979-80. Courtesy the artist. Photography by Jules Lister.

A screenprint with a large black rectange and a blue oval patern, in a white frame. — Cecile Elstein, Meeting Thanatos from The Sisyphus Suite, 1979-80. Courtesy the artist. Photography by Jules Lister.

A black and white geometric screenprint photograped in a white frame on a white wall. — Cecile Elstein, Confrontment fromThe Sisyphus Suite, 1979-80. Courtesy the artist. Photography by Jules Lister.

A red and white screenprint in a white frame. — Cecile Elstein, Passion Motivation from The Sisyphus Suite, 1979-80. Courtesy the artist. Photography by Jules Lister.

A colourful screenprint with a red, yellow, blue and black patern in a white frame. — Cecile Elstein, Construction from The Sisyphus Suite, 1979-80. Courtesy the artist. Photography by Jules Lister.

A colourful screenprint with a red, blue and yellow patern on a black background, in a white frame. — Cecile Elstein, Resolution from The Sisyphus Suite, 1979-80. Courtesy the artist. Photography by Jules Lister.

Tags: 1979, 1980, Cecile Elstein, Print, Screenprint, series
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Joey Collins, Gathering of Strangers, 2018

Artist: Joey Collins

Title: Gathering of Strangers

Year: 2018

Medium: Screenprint and Graphite

Dimensions: H: 40cm W: 130cm

Accession Number: US2018-11

Acquisition info:

This work was acquired following the 2018 PRINT UnLtd exhibition, presented at Salford Museum and Art Gallery in partnership with University of Salford Art Collection and Hot Bed Press. Funded by Arts Council England. Collins was commissioned following selection from an open call for submissions.

As a starting point for his work for PRINT UnLtd, Collins collected discarded drawings from art supplies shops in Manchester. These drawings are made specifically to ‘try out’ the pens and pencils sold in the shop. In itself, he feels that each of these drawings is its own collaboration; the strips of paper are layered with combined words, squiggles, cartoons, and abstract marks. Collins rescues and recycles these found drawings which he scans, enlarges, edits, separates and exposes onto silk screens and screen-printed. He then works repeatedly into these prints using collage and drawing. Finally, he cuts them into strips, to mirror the original source material, and rearranges the strips into a new piece of work.

Joey Collins is an alumnus of the University of Salford, graduatating from BA Hons Visual Arts in 1997.

Tags: 2018, Graphite, Joey Collins, Print, Screenprint
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