Simon Attwood Archive
In the Simon Attwood print archive, you will find prints that he has made in collaboration with The Artists' Press.These prints are sold out and are no longer available from us. They are recorded in this print archive so that a record of his work in print is available online for reference purposes.
Lithographs and Linocut prints by Simon Attwood that are still available
Monotype Prints by Simon Attwood that are still available
New Editions from The Artists' Press
Title: Injelwane
Medium: Single colour lithograph in sixteen panels adhered to fabric base
Size: 920 x 1220 mm
Date: 2022
Edition size: 30
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"This print is a continuation of my series of trees with hidden stories including Sikhova, Poacher’s Adversary and Muskeljaatkat. I have used the striking form of a marula tree from the Mpumalanga Lowveld to frame a porcupine. In siSwati ‘Injelwane’ is porcupine and is a direct reference to the animal’s sharp spines. Porcupines fascinate me because they are remarkably resilient to human alterations of the landscape, crossing under electric fences, biting irrigation pipes to get water and eating plants from suburban gardens all without being seen by people. Injelwane is a tribute to these bizarre giant rodents." Simon Attwood, 2022
Title: Constellation
Medium: Single colour linocut
Paper size: 57 x 76 cm
Date: 2020
Edition size: 25
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"Constellation is a print of a side-striped jackal. The reference that I used to
compose the piece came from an image of a jackal caught on a camera trap at
night near my family’s home in Mpumalanga. I had fun with the interaction
between light and dark in the composition, using white points against a pitch
black background to reveal an animal’s accidental self-portrait. The photograph
that this image comes from is also important to me because I shared it with my
grandmother before she died. She was delighted with the ghostly image of this
sly nocturnal canine. After her death, I composed this linocut as a way of
tying up an important chapter in my life and of sharing an image that I
delight in. Upon close inspection, the creature fades into a fictional
constellation of stars just as memories of my grandmother fade into a
nonsensical constellation of highlights upon close inspection." Simon Attwood, 2020
Title: Muskeljaatkat
Medium: Single colour linocut in 16 panels adhered to cotton fabric
Size: 99 x 129 cm
Date: 2020
Edition size: 20
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"Muskeljaatkat
is a linocut of a large kirkia tree from the Kruger Park. This
particular tree caught my attention with its twisting and turning
branches. After starting the linocut I decided to add a silhouette of a
genet to the composition and to title the print Muskeljaatkat , which
is both a play on the form of the word (which mirrors the form of the
tree) and the idea of visually framing the focal point such that it is
not immediately obvious. Muskeljaatkat coincidentally came to life in
April 2020 when my dog caught a melanistic genet in our garden (this
being only the second recorded incidence of melanism in South African
genets). The black silhouette of the genet in Muskeljaatkat became a
real animal in my life".
Simon Attwood, 2020
Muskeljaatkat detail, showing genet.
Title: Sikhova (Owl)
Medium: Maniere noir lithograph
Paper size: 42.5 x 50 cm
Date: 2018
Edition size: 20
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Title: Stuart Trent
Medium: Single colour linocut with hand colouring
Edition size: 1
Price: Commissioned by Stuart Trent for his collection of portraits 2018.
Title: Silent Decimation
Medium: Single colour linocut
Paper size: 48 x 61.5 cm
Edition size: 20
Date: 2017
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Title: Lerato Takana
Medium: Single colour linocut
Paper size: 33.5 x 25 cm
Edition size: 7
Date: 2017
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Title: Abi Shetlane
Medium: Single colour linocut
Paper size: 33.5 x 25 cm
Edition size: 7
Date: 2017
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Title: Marula
Medium: Single colour linocut
Paper size: 57.5 x 60 cm
Edition size: 20
Date: 2017
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Title: Lord of Nothing
Medium: Single colour linocut
Paper size: 75 x 106 cm
Edition size: 10
Date: 2015
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"The therianthropic form of a human with the head of an ibis indicates how people are an integrated part of the environment. Humans cannot assume that they are not part of the environment. If we cut down all the forests of the world and hunt every last bird and animal we will be unable to survive. By firing an arrow into the heart of a bird we are firing an arrow into the heart of humanity. By killing the natural world, people are killing themselves. After the natural resources run out, people will become the rulers of a world containing nothing other than them selves. Just like the ominous figure in this linocut, we will become the lord of nothing. People will be left stranded in a world of dust and homogenous, lifeless emptiness. The birds receding in the background represent the loss of species and the scarcity of the world’s natural resources. The ibis skull is symbolic of the knowledge and wisdom that the ancient Egyptian god, Thoth, represented. People have such a great scientific understanding of the world, yet we are destroying it. The skull is lifeless and represents the cruel, thoughtless, cold-hearted way in which people kill the beings of the natural world in order to gain a surplus of wealth. A surplus of human wealth ultimately causes a scarcity of natural resources". Simon Attwood, 2015
Title: Killing Time: Disease
Medium: Single colour linocut
Paper size: 55.5 x 76.5 cm
Edition size: 10
Date: 2015
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Title: Growth of the Mind
Medium: Hand coloured linocut
Paper size: 56 x 77 cm
Edition size: 100
Date: 2014
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