Roman Vaughan-Williams

@tomcubitt @vitowalker_studio @willpowersmakes @romans_artwork @maj_lisa @georgemeadow.s @bek.ashton @madeleine_wood_ @angus.macdonald3 @myrtle.glanville and @arthur_boothby

Alloy consists of a series of drawings developed through various forms of collaboration, exploring the possibilities that emerge through collective making.

Participating artists include

We are pleased to announce the creation of Alloy, a forthcoming exhibition at Outpost Gallery, Norwich. The exhibition focuses exclusively on collaborative practice, bringing together works created through shared authorship.

“We shall institute in the country a peace resting not on guns and bayonets but on concord and goodwill.” Patrice Lumumba

Contemporary print artwork with hand colouring.

Title: The Sweet Milk of Patrice Lumumba’s Blood Fertilises Flanders Fields

Drypoint on Tetrapak printed on Hannah Müller white and hand coloured with Terre Vert Pigment and oak gall ink.

1/7

40 x 15cm

This Art work stages a confrontation between the mythological figure of David, a stand in for the heroic subjectivity and the impersonal weapon system that is colloquially known as “David’s Sling”.

David Vs David’s Slingshot (Apocalypse)

15 x10cm

AP

Drypoint on Aluminium with Polishing

Printed with Doux on Hannah Müller white while artist in residence at Dumfries House.

The aluminium was also polished to press down its grain and remove the plate tone around ‘the work of art’.
Thematically the work celebrates the impotence of this work of art in the face of the world.

As part of my artistic experimentation I tried to create “chromatic grey” so that the black had a varied tone, in this print I created a very dark purple which creates subtle difference in plate tone.

The Work of Art

Aluminium etching printed into Hannah Muller White

AP

20 x 15 cm

I made this print as artist in residence at Dumfries House.

The work was produced in Switzerland as part of the Conspicuous Heights residency and printed by @romans_artwork at the @dumfrieshouse printmaking workshop as part of his four week residency there.

Tetrapak Exquisite Corpse Collaborative print “banana demiurge”

7 x 10

Drypoint on Tetrapak made in collaboration with @romans_artwork @bek.ashton and @arthur_boothby (and possibly someone else drop me a dm)

This work was produced by introducing a scalpel and Tetrapak into the act of sauna-ing.

This work deals with the way the idea of freedom spread from a rupture in the symbolic order to something perverted, repressed and constrained by capital.

This work is being exhibited at Clifford Chance as part of the show “Postgraduate Printmaking in London 2025: A survey of London Art Colleges” it can be viewed by appointment at 10 Upper Bank Street London E14 5JJ.
The exhibition is on until 16th January.

Water Lilies (The Possibility of Freedom)

Aluminium Etching (Hand finished with drawing)

60x40

Some install shots of my work in Postgraduate printmaking in London 2025 at Clifford Chance Law office in Canary Wharf.

The exhibition is on until 16th January.

A large, intricate monochrome blue drawing combining figurative and architectural forms. Dense, layered mark-making builds a palimpsest of fragmented bodies, ruins, grids and symbolic structures. A towering central figure stands among collapsing forms, while a dark, vaulted space on the right rises over a mound of debris. The left side is filled with overlapping anatomical, mechanical and narrative elements. The image evokes geological time, myth, and contemporary anxieties through meticulous, labour-intensive drawing. Contemporary art, experimental drawing, printmaking and iconographic complexity.

A close-up detail from a monochrome blue drawing showing fine, layered mark-making. Delicate etched lines form grasses, roots and fragmented limbs, with subtle cross-hatching and eroded textures suggesting geological sediment and bodily traces. The image highlights the labour-intensive, palimpsest-like surface of a contemporary drawing or print, emphasising material process, erosion, and accumulated time.

A close-up section of a dense monochrome blue drawing showing layered, overlapping figures rendered through fine etched lines. Fragmented bodies bend, collapse and merge with gestural marks, while a diagonal beam or fallen structure cuts through the composition. The surface is palimpsestic, with erased forms, ghostly outlines and accumulated mark-making revealing a labour-intensive contemporary drawing practice. The detail highlights themes of rupture, strain and mythic or historical collapse.

Into the Gaussian Blue (Post Human)

Drypoint on plastic

30 x 70cm

This work is being exhibited at Clifford Chance as part of the show “Postgraduate Printmaking in London 2025: A survey of London Art Colleges” it can be viewed by appointment at 10 Upper Bank Street London E14 5JJ.

@morninkeziah
@angus.macdonald3
@romans_artwork
@maj_lisa

Some install shots from our recent exhibition The Tetrapak Show.

Participating artists:

@willpowersmakes
@jackshg
@romans_artwork
@paul_majek
@vitowalker_studio
@myrtle.glanville
@angus.macdonald3
@ikeshavo
@madeleine_wood_
@maj_lisa
@daniel_chrt
@morninkeziah
@isaacjheard
@tomcubitt

Curated by

Realms of Unreality (contained opposition)

Etching, drypoint, Tetrapak drypoint, and drawing on paper

30 x 25

After the invisible handjob

The Machine

Artists: @maj_lisa and @romans_artwork

Medium: Tetrapak Drypoint

Size: 22 x 29 cm

This etching made in collaboration with Maj has a combination of both artists imagery welded together into a mangled machinery that does not sleep.

There is a lot happening in Newcastle I would recommend visiting some studios up there (Middlesbrough too). Newbridge and Albion Road studios are good places to start!

Is this photogravure?