Troon 2024

 . . as exhibited in Copy That - Karel Klíč – Art For All in Lancaster’s The Storey, a celebration of the life of Karel Klic on the 100th anniversary of his death, before the exhibition moves on to Blackburn Museum in early 2027.
This is a ‘rotogravure-screened’ photogravure endeavouring to emulate the unique qualities of rotogravures, and making those obvious by exaggerating the halftone process which Klic invented.
The original photograph was taken during the preparations for that year’s British Open Golf Championship being hosted by the Royal Troon Club.
The halftones were created with a relatively coarse screen, a 116 lines per inch ‘ruling’. The resultant image exploits the rotogravure screen’s unique grid pattern to subliminally heighten the ‘defences’ in place to discourage unpaying visitors.
But the image was primarily a celebration of Klic’s printing process.

It was shown in conjunction with Sea/White Horses, a traditional copperplate photogravure which had also been made as a demonstration plate, for the Alternative Processes International Symposium in 2004 (APIS 2004) as a lecture and show n tell presentation. A copperplate photogravure uses a traditional etching aquatint to create the halftones.

Look at Sea/White Horses