CALLY TRENCH
Linocut prints
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Cally Trench's most recent (2023) suite of linocut prints is The Fourteen Stages of Birdhood, which shows different stages in a Bird's life from hatching to decomposing after death. See The Fourteen Stages of Birdhood on this website. |
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Cally Trench's occasional linocut prints are hand-printed in limited editions of ten or twenty, and some are hand-coloured with acrylic paint. Cally Trench's prints have been exhibited widely, including in Multiplied 2013, Originals 08, Freedom (2007), Printmakers Council - Open Biennale (1999), Society of Wood Engravers (1995), National Print Exhibition (1994), and Impressive Women (1992).Shop Window for availablity and prices. If you would like to buy a print, please email me: hello at callytrench dot co dot uk. All sizes are the size of the paper. I may have one or two copies of prints not listed in the Shop Window. Email me to enquire. |
"Cally Trench's Angel Skeleton is a superb balancing act of clean-drawn lines." (Julia Allen in Multiples, July 1995) |
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Films based on linocut prints Cally Trench has made seven short animation films based on her linocut prints. |
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Burial (2022) is a very short animation film in which the entwined bones of two mermaids - mother and child - appear and disappear. The sound, reminiscent of a funeral march, was created on a bodhran and a tambourine. [1 minute 23 seconds]. Completion date 6th January 2022. |
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Fossil Fish Film, 2020 (38 seconds) by Cally Trench is a short silent animation film in which fossil fish appear, swim about, and freeze in their final resting places. It is based on the artist's linocut print Twenty-Two Fossil Fish. |
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Windmills, 2017 (57 seconds) is a short animation film by Cally Trench based on her linocut print Memory, with music specially written for the film by composer Josh Hagley. The film recollects both seaside holidays and the toy windmills placed on children's graves. |
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Pink House, 2016 (42 seconds) is a short animation film by Cally Trench based on one of her linocut prints. It reflects on the power of sea and wind. The music for Pink House was specially written for the film by composer Josh Hagley in 2016. |
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Ice Lollies, 2015 (16 seconds) is a short silent animation film by Cally Trench based on one of her linocut prints. As in real life, the lollies disappear - either melting or being eaten. |
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Sphinx, 2015 (25 seconds) is another animation film by Cally Trench based on one of her linocut prints. The Sphinx threw herself off a cliff after Oedipus guessed her riddle. What would her bones look like? The music for Sphinx was specially written for the film by composer Josh Hagley in 2016. |
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Window, 2014 (33 seconds) by Cally Trench is a short silent animation film based on one of her linocut prints. |