Graham Fagen lives and works in Glasgow. He first came to Cove Park for a residency with curator Katrina Brown (then Curator, Dundee Contemporary Arts) and theatre maker Graham Eatough in 2004. This led to a number of collaborative projects, including the project Killing Time at DCA in 2006.

Fagen works in a variety of ways to create artworks that examine what he calls ‘cultural formers.’ This print uses an iconic image forged from his ‘library of ideas’ that first appeared in his 2005 solo exhibition and publication Clean Hands, Pure Heart at Tramway, Glasgow, and in a photographic print in his 2006 solo exhibition Closer at doggerfisher, Edinburgh. It references notions of identity, symbolism, and cultural associations, with particular reference links between Scotland and Jamaica at the time of the poet Robert Burns. Each time Fagen reworks this strong, graphic historically sourced image he repositions it in a new context. The new printed version uses a four-colour process, causing the image to slightly fragment, thus adding a sense of dramatisation to its form.

Produced at Dundee Contemporary Arts Print Studio

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