Exhibition at Trykkeriet Bergen, March 15 - April 13 2025
New works in silk screen and digital print, produced at Trykkeriet, February - March 2025.
The print technicians at Trykkeriet produced the prints in close collaboration with the artist. Welsh has previously used the silkscreen process multiple times in larger public art projects, including at Halden Prison (2009) and the Østland Terminal at Posten in Lørenskog (2010). With experience as a graphic designer in the late 70s and early 80s, he has long had an interest in a visual language that combines elements of fine art and design.
A Map…. is the title of a diverse collection of visual material produced over the last year. As quite an absurd proposition, the title is a hint on how one might read the images, but is not a recipe pointing to any specific meaning. The images in the exhibition, a selection from a much larger series, are meant to point toward one another and provide an opportunity to read the exhibition as a whole. Many of the images hover between concrete representation and a more abstract expression. Shifts in scale and the building of motifs in several layers combine to open a dialogical space where both the artwork and the viewer play a role in meaning-making. The images are meant to be both serious and playful, and the intention is that the joy of creation is visible in the exhibition.
