The Barbican Centre Risograph Print — Interior Ceiling

The Barbican Centre Risograph Print — Interior Ceiling

£15.00
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The Barbican Centre Risograph Print — Interior Ceiling

A concrete cathedral, in black-and-white Risograph by Spaceplay

The Barbican Centre Risograph Print — Interior Ceiling

£15.00

3 FOR 2 ON ALL RISOGRAPH PRINTS

A3 Risograph Print with border
Print Size: 30cm x 42cm (A3)
Print Style: Black and White Risograph
Paper Style: Heavy weight textured cream
Sold unframed and posted in a tube
Based on my original photograpy

A risograph portrait of the Barbican's coffered ceiling, looking straight up. Affordable, sustainable wall art for anyone who's got happily lost on the way to a concert.

Real printed artwork without the gallery price

Low-impact printing with soy-based inks

Grain and textures perfect for Brutalism

Artisan printed in the UK

SHIPPING + RETURNS

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All Spaceplay prints are posted within 14 days.

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UK customers can also select Express Shipping at checkout to have their print  posted within 7 days.

Returns

You can return unused and undamaged items within 30 days of delivery for a refund, excluding return postage costs.

If your model arrives damaged, faulty, or incorrect, please email me within 14 days of delivery with your order number and photos of the issue. I’ll arrange a free replacement to be made and posted to you.

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Building Information

Location:  London, England
Architect: Chamberlin, Powell & Bon
Completed: 1982
Status: Grade II Listed
Brief Overview: The Barbican Centre is a performing arts centre- the largest of it's kind in Europe.  It was built as the City's gift to the nation and formerly opened by Queen Elizabeth II.  It is situated in an area that was badly bombed during World War II, and is surrounded by the Barbican Estate housing complex.  Typically with Brutalism the design divides opinion- and in 2003 it was voted Britain's ugliest building.  As well as hosting a variety of music concerts, theatre productions, film screenings and art exhibitions The Barbican Centre is also home to the London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra and is the London base of the Royal Shakespeare Compan

My Risograph Prints

I often go hunting for Brutalist buildings and photograph them wherever I can get to them — car parks, bus stations, university towers, housing estates. Some of the ones in this collection have already been demolished.

 Photographing them is how I collect them; printing them is how I share them.

I think Risograph suits concrete. It's a stencil process: soy-based ink pushed through a drum one layer at a time, soaking into the paper rather than sitting on top of it in a glossy film. You get grain, texture and gorgeous matte blacks, and small variations from one print to the next that mean no two are quite identical. I think this makes it look and feel more like concrete.

Every print is produced with an independent artisan printer here in the UK, on 170gsm Munken Pure Rough Premium paper. The soy-based inks replace petroleum ones — lower in solvents, easier to recycle — and the press needs no heat to fuse them, so it draws a fraction of the power of a laser machine. This makes all of my prints affordable and eco-friendly.

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The Barbican Centre Risograph Print — Interior Ceiling

Everybody gets lost in the Barbican, and the best thing to do when you realise you're lost is look up. This risograph print takes the ceiling from directly below — the grid of concrete coffers running away overhead, hammered and bush-hammered by hand until the aggregate showed through. Chamberlin, Powell and Bon spent years getting that surface right and it rewards the attention. Printed A3 in black and white on heavy textured paper, which is as close as print gets to the real thing. London Brutalism at its most meticulous. A3 wall art for anyone who has a membership, saw something brilliant in the main hall, or simply treats the estate as the best free walk in the City. A gift for an architect who knows how that concrete was finished.