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Limited edition letterpress print
White Clover is easy to overlook.
Small, familiar and growing close to the ground, it hardly seems like a plant that might have played a part in the development of a colony.
But that was precisely what drew me to its story.
While researching Walter Hill, Brisbane’s first colonial botanist, I discovered that he experimented with combining legumes, including White Clover, with grasses to create more drought-resistant feed for livestock.
In a young colony dependent upon animals for farming, transport and freight, keeping those animals healthy mattered enormously.
Suddenly this modest little plant carried a different weight.
I began looking closely at its familiar three-leaf form, rounded flowers and long, wandering stems. Extracted from botanical imagery and repeated across the page, those stems began to loop and meander, creating a pattern that felt light and almost playful.
I printed White Clover on an original Heidelberg Windmill letterpress, pressing the image into cotton rag paper using a process with its own history and physicality.
I like that something so easily passed by can become worthy of our attention when we stop and look again.
Sometimes the smallest things have been quietly holding everything together.
The Edition
Released in an edition of just ten, White Clover is letterpress printed on Magnani Incisioni 650/5 Smooth White 100% cotton rag paper using rubber-based inks.
Each print is signed, titled and individually numbered on the front, wrapped in acid-free tissue and presented in a custom protective envelope. It is accompanied by information detailing the artwork, the Collected Patterns series and its place within the edition.
The print is sold unframed and ships worldwide in a rigid protective envelope.
Edition: 10
Paper size: 300 × 260 mm
Paper: Magnani Incisioni 650/5 Smooth White, 100% cotton rag
Printing: Letterpress with rubber-based inks
Press: Heidelberg Windmill
Signed: Signed, titled and numbered on front
Framing: Unframed
Shipping: Worldwide
Limited edition letterpress print
White Clover is easy to overlook.
Small, familiar and growing close to the ground, it hardly seems like a plant that might have played a part in the development of a colony.
But that was precisely what drew me to its story.
While researching Walter Hill, Brisbane’s first colonial botanist, I discovered that he experimented with combining legumes, including White Clover, with grasses to create more drought-resistant feed for livestock.
In a young colony dependent upon animals for farming, transport and freight, keeping those animals healthy mattered enormously.
Suddenly this modest little plant carried a different weight.
I began looking closely at its familiar three-leaf form, rounded flowers and long, wandering stems. Extracted from botanical imagery and repeated across the page, those stems began to loop and meander, creating a pattern that felt light and almost playful.
I printed White Clover on an original Heidelberg Windmill letterpress, pressing the image into cotton rag paper using a process with its own history and physicality.
I like that something so easily passed by can become worthy of our attention when we stop and look again.
Sometimes the smallest things have been quietly holding everything together.
The Edition
Released in an edition of just ten, White Clover is letterpress printed on Magnani Incisioni 650/5 Smooth White 100% cotton rag paper using rubber-based inks.
Each print is signed, titled and individually numbered on the front, wrapped in acid-free tissue and presented in a custom protective envelope. It is accompanied by information detailing the artwork, the Collected Patterns series and its place within the edition.
The print is sold unframed and ships worldwide in a rigid protective envelope.
Edition: 10
Paper size: 300 × 260 mm
Paper: Magnani Incisioni 650/5 Smooth White, 100% cotton rag
Printing: Letterpress with rubber-based inks
Press: Heidelberg Windmill
Signed: Signed, titled and numbered on front
Framing: Unframed
Shipping: Worldwide