A new departure in Jeff Lowe’s recent work has been collaborating with Kip Gresham at the Print Studio in Cambridge to create a series of new screenprints. In line with his recent large-scale works which use curved sheets of painted aluminium curved in and around each other, these brightly coloured works on paper explore layers, space, texture and have an extraordinary three-dimensional quality to them.

The exciting shifts in Lowe’s work that come together in Lowe’s recent exhibition titled ‘In The Close Distance’ can be attributed in part to his move to the Lime Works in Faversham in 2015, a former Art Deco water-purification plant built in 1937. The house, which is constructed of two monumental cylindrical forms, has been restored by Lowe over the past three years, and is made up of living and working spaces where Lowe is influenced by the surrounding architecture and the rolling green landscape. The building’s interior earthy tones which draw on the artist’s love for the Algarve, and the circular forms of the house are echoed in Lowe’s sculptures.

These prints relate directly to the series of aluminium curved and coloured sculptures made by Jeff Lowe around this time. The prints use a similar vocabulary to the Sculpture. Openings in the sheets reveal the layers behind differentiated by colour and form. The overlaps, edges and shapes are ‘constructed’ almost as sculpture to arrive at a complete overall form.