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# Project Description Blocks and Prints Sophie Bond Summary Final work I explore the relationship between natural and manufactured materials through carving, printmaking, and handmade paper. Guided by texture and process, my work reclaims industrial materials like plywood, creating 'artificially-natural' forms. I focus on repetition, surface, and transformation, blurring boundaries between object and image, material and meaning, block and print. I explore the relationship between natural and manufactured materials through carving, printmakin... College Central Saint Martins Course BA (Hons) Fine Art Graduation year 2025 My work centres around the interrogation of plywood. Recognising it as a manufactured material made for purpose. I carve into the found ply blocks, mimicking bark-like texture, creating a sculptural surface. I then print them, documenting the craved surfaces. I often ask if the block is made specifically to get the print or if the block can exist as a sculptural object on its own. My work is process based and comes from a thinking about transformation of. materials and a possible destruction of structural integrity. This work is also a reflection of the biography of plywood as an object, its edges become more prevalent the more I carve and the more I interact. Final work Net of Carved Plywood Block, 2025 Relief print on cartridge paper, 70cm x 50cm This print comes from a place of thinking about documenting the entire carved block as an object, investigating plywood as a 'naturally artificial' material. Block, 2025 Carved 17mm marine plywood with ink and print on cartridge paper, 12cm x 30.4cm Mimicking the history of plywood as a heavily manufactured and recognisable material, as I carve, a bark-like texture reveals the layers of plywood that have been laminated together. Big Block, 2025 16mm marine plywood, ink, 17.4cm x 47.6cm Big Block (Print), 2025 Relief print on cartridge paper, 46cm x 59.5cm Share this project My work centres around the interrogation of plywood. Recognising it as a manufactured material made for purpose. I carve into the found ply blocks, mimicking bark-like texture, creating a sculptural surface. I then print them, documenting the craved surfaces. I often ask if th... A link to this page has been added to your clipboard Browse related work Craft & Process Histories Materiality Nature & Environment Craft Print Abstraction Process Paper Woodcut Wood Installation
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