I made the Jelly, I photographed the Jelly, I then ate the Jelly. All that was left was to make this Jelly print — Donk's description of his process for...
I made the Jelly, I photographed the Jelly, I then ate the Jelly. All that was left was to make this Jelly print — Donk's description of his process for this piece, and it's one of the more entertainingly direct accounts of how his work is made. The Jelly as subject is absurd, deliberate, and rooted in his practice of using original photography as raw material.
Five layers of screen print from that original photograph — which no longer exists, having been eaten. There's something in that trajectory (jelly to photograph to print) that reflects Donk's interest in ephemeral things: what remains when the original object is gone. Limited edition, signed.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Donk
Donk is a street artist working within the paste-up tradition. He combines original photography, printmaking and hand finishing techniques.
He has been placing his work onto the streets of London and elsewhere since 2008.
His images are often inhabited by his family & friends who take on the various roles within his work. The strongly evocative and anachronistic images also remix urban history and culture, across a time line of his own making, at once referencing the past and the contemporary to make playful connections between universal themes of human strength, vulnerability and the passage of time.
