Justin Diggle
Artist, Printmaker
Salt Lake City, UT
“Our American French Tool Press, is a mainstay of the Printmaking area, and during semesters students and myself use it continuously. In the years we have had the press it has functioned perfectly. I bought the press with a hand crank for ease of access issues and I have found this feature to be great. The hand crank also moves very easily and, in conjunction with the gauges, gives you a good sense of the pressure required for each individual plate.”
– Justin Diggle,
Artist/ Printmaker
Professor-Printmaking,
University of Utah
Bio
-Foundation Diploma West Surrey College of Art & Design. Farnham, UK, 1986
-B.F.A. Bristol Polytechnic Bristol, UK Renamed the University of the West of England, 1989
-Post Extension Diploma Bristol Polytechnic Bristol, UK, 1991
-M.F.A. Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL, 1997
-Professor-Printmaking, University of Utah
Artist Statement
My current work takes as its central focus the idea of Surveillance and the many forms that this can take. The use of bird imagery acts as a metaphor for surveillance: being seen from above, or watched, and this is often combined with other elements, such as a plane, for aerial surveillance, or more recently with cameras.
The bird also adds an emotive and expressive character so that the viewer will not just see a sterile representation of equipment, but rather will be made aware that it is controlled, or perhaps programmed by individuals
Prints
“Flight Scanning I”
– 2010
– 24″ x 20.5″
– Etching and Photo Etching
– Printed on an American French Tool press, Fifi
– University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah
“Flight Scanning II”
– 2010
– 24″ x 20.5″
– Etching and Photo Etching
– Printed on an American French Tool press, Fifi
– University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah
“Flight Scanning III”
– 2006
– 24″ x 20.5″
– Etching and Photo Etching
– Printed on an American French Tool press, Fifi
– University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah
“The Eye Behind the Camera”
– 2010
– 19.5″ x 14.5″
– Etching
– Printed on an American French Tool press, Fifi
– University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah
“Cameras there, Cameras here”
– 2012
– 13.5″ x 10″
– Etching
– Printed on an American French Tool press, Fifi
– University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah
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