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Pure Oxidised Silver on Paper, 2008
framed photograph
series of 15 s 15/15

Exhibitions

2009 Heralded as the new black, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL

2010, Group Show 'Hors d'oeuvre II', Campagne Premiere, Berlin, Germany

'Heralded as the new black',
 IKON, Birmingham
30 January - 24 March 2008

South London Gallery
24 april - 22 june 2008

One in a series of photographs, each photograph is individually numbered from it's negative. The numbers on each print vary according to the transparencies registration and time documented on the film. An 8'' x 10'' photographic print showing a close up of the worlds blackest black paint, produced by a team of scientists at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, Britain. Developed for use in the space exploration industry, the 'blackness' consists of a coating that will be used on the interior of the Hubble Space Telescope to improve its vision and is produced by a very lengthy chain of chemical processes, involving nickel sulphate and sodium hypophosphite. This produces a phosphorus coating. Then the surface is etched with nitric acid to produce the super-black surface structure. A 5cm square coverage averages out at about five hundred British Pounds.
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