Printworks
Ongoing
Monoprints on 60x80 Munken Pure.

Exploration of colours and composition using freehand serigraphy printing.
Dear Sincerely
Ongoing
Dear Sincerely explores conversation as a form of knowledge production. Its pages encase 12 letters adressed to friends around the world, each focussing on a specific topic. As part of the book, the letters are available to an unknown audience, thus inhabiting an ambivalent space between the private and the public. 

Apart from the letters, the book includes 12 stamps featuring patterns found in commercial envelopes.

Edition of 20, Pages printed on Risograph, Dustjacket printed in Serigraphy 
Fragments
2021
Fragments is a series of six booklets. The first three – Collected Words – consist of a collection of text fragments that explore topics related to artistic research, publishing and curating. The other three booklets document three exhibitions I curated in my home, changing the context of the living room to that of the White Cube, the Wunderkammer and the Studio.

Alltogether, Fragments fuses ideas, topics and knowledge gained from the readings with my personal archive of collected images and objects. The publication makes visible the exercise of arranging and re-arranging thoughts and material on paper and in space.

Edition of 20, Printed on Risograph
Poems of the Sea
2023
Poems of the Sea explores how context and means of presentation change the perception of objects. Chalk pebbles found in Margate were photographed in a set resembling the traditional white cube gallery. Through this, the sculptural qualities of the objects were accentuated and the viewer left to question origin, size and value.

The catalogue of these readymade sculptures remains deliberately stripped back, providing the reader with almost no information. Instead the focus lays on the tactile experience of the pages and the sculptural forms of each pebble. 

Edition of 20, Digital Print, Japanese Binding
Frameworks
2023
MA Visual Communication Design – Thesis Project. Frameworks is both an installation and an exhibition. The cube-structure, placed in the lobby of Aalto University, explored ways of showcasing graphic design work, process, and practice outside the conventional portfolio setting.

During its two week run the inside of the cube changed from White Cube setting to informal reading room – presenting my personal design work in different ways. The outside, left intentionally raw, showcased the process and inspiration for each project and the exhibition itself. 




©Amelie Scharffetter