Soft Impressions - Helen Cammock, Ingrid Pollard, Camara Taylor

Soft Impressions - a cross-generational group exhibition at Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA), brings together the work of Helen Cammock, Ingrid Pollard and Camara Taylor. The title is drawn from printmaking terminology, where a work lifted from the printing plate is called an impression; the same term can be used to denote the application of pressure in creating prints. The exhibition at DCA focuses on the artists' shared engagement with, and considered approach to, printmaking as a medium. Their works in print are contextualised alongside installation, moving image, textiles and a mural. A common thread in each artist's work is an exploration of identity and rethinking historical narratives or figures through poetic actions. Cammock and Pollard have both undertaken production residencies in DCA Print Studio for the exhibition. This publication brings together a constellation of voices alongside full colour images of the exhibition and a preface by Tiffany Boyle, DCA's Head of Exhibitions. In a newly commissioned text by art historian and writer Professor Susannah Thompson, the seminal Caribbean writer Sam Selvon's time in Dundee and his published works provide a kind of timeline, a backbone, to key moments and happenings referenced in the works of Pollard, Cammock and Taylor. This is followed by an in-conversation between the three artists which took place during the exhibition's opening preview; speaking to printmaking methods, the application of pressure, research processes in both formal archives and the public domain, and cross-generational conversations.