Alex Russell creates one-off generative prints with a unique mix of hand-made processes and creative coding.
You can buy prints from the shop, or contact Alex to commission art from him.
Coming up:
The Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair Online from 2-3 December 2023.
Manchester Makers Festive Giveaway from 1-24 Decmber 2023. Follow Alex on Instagram for a chance to win a one-off print.
One-off artworks created in series
Alex works in series, each with it’s own code and library of mainly-hand-made images. Visit the shop for the full range of unique, original artworks, or scroll down for a preview of each one.
His latest one-off prints are in the Eurydice’s Song and Palimpsest series.
Eurydice’s Song
The Eurydice’s Song series is inspired by the artists and designers from all over the world who have made abstract work for thousands of years. It is a celebration of colour and pattern. Browse/buy here.
Palimpsest
Palimpsest explores the idea that a written-upon surface could have a sort of archeology, either of previous images, or of its own development. The one-off prints have ghosts of hundreds of (asemic) writings, cleanings, coverings and crossings-out.
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Inkt Vis Inkt
Inkt Vis Inkt is a series of one-off prints and artworks, combining Riso-printed imagery, translations of screen-printing techniques and the possibilities of creative code with digital printing. It explores relationship between successive printing technologies. Read more here; browse/buy here.
Roundles Pallet
Roundles Pallet explores creating complexity from simple pattern. It has its roots in work Alex made in the late 2000s, researching the possibilities of digital printing. Further developed as part of Genuary 2022, Roundles Pallett mixes hand-made and code-created imagery. Read more here; browse/buy here.
Connected Play
Connected Play is a development of the “Architecture” prompt from Genuary 2022. It draws on the biological concept of genotypes and phenotypes alluding to the complex patterns of synaptic connections that allow humans to learn and form memories. Read more here; browse/buy here.
Endlich Nach Zahn
Endlich Nach Zahn investigates taking pencil drawing into a digital, generative context, combining figurative content with abstract mark-making. The code builds up highly complex artworks, using six different compositional models that respond to each others content as they emerge.
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Future Rope Core Memory
Future Rope Core Memory examines representations of the natural world and the past, exploring their use as decoration in the urban environment. The code models methods of ornamental composition to combine floral and landscape imagery with traditional pattern elements.
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A Scheme Not Of This World
A Scheme Not Of This World explores the concept of abstract map-making by creating imaginary topographies. The code simulates textile/graphic design and fine art methods of arranging content within an image, creating complexity from very simple elements.
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Genuary 2022 (pt.1)
Genuary is a generative art challenge that takes place in January each year. Participants use a daily prompt to “build code that makes beautiful things” (in the words of its co-ordinators), sharing their work on social media. Alex first did it in 2021.
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Genuary 2022 (pt. 2)
Alex experimented with isometric perspective, colour palette algorithms and recursive functions. It was also an opportunity to delve into more code-created imagery, in addition to the library of pre-prepatred hand-made images and other content he normally works with.
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