Dispersal V – IV – VII (2025)
Dispersal V – IV – VII (2025) is a blind emboss on paper. The image depicts a unique Caribbean landscape reimagined using photomicrographs of different aquatic plant cells living at the London Docklands. A self portrait and abstract landscape in which I connect my parents’ origins through marine life and water. In the absence of ink, applied in traditional photo etching lithography, the work is experienced through texture, shape, and shadow — at a distance, the work appears almost invisible. The embossed details on a monochrome ground only come into view on closer inspection.
Adam Moore, Dispersal V – IV – VII (detail) (2025)
Adam Moore, Dispersal V – IV – VII (detail) (2025)
Deeply personal, Dispersal V – IV – VII is also a quiet meditation on the indurability, transformation, and reconstitution of memory, contemplating what happens to the impressions made upon us by people and places as time passes, and what remains as memories inevitably fade. The result of my experimental, post-minimalist approach to printmaking, Dispersal V – IV – VII developed from traditional photo etching and chine collé techniques. I progressed to the monochrome blind emboss through a series of sequential reductions. Dispersal V – IV – VII was presented in the group show Las Palabras at Somers Gallery, London, in October 2025. Dispersal V – IV – VII was created at the University of East London print workshop at the London Docklands campus. The plants living in the biodiverse water habitat at the docklands, where the series of unique works and limited editions were made, are the same motifs depicted and transforming throughout the collection of works on paper A History of Dispersals (2024-25) (see more here). One example of how I use my situated research and practice to create artworks that embody and expand notions of site. The collection was developed from my research at the V&A Research Institute and V&A Museum archives and collections, and my situated research with ecological technology designers Biomatrix Water Solutions as the inaugural V&A East X Bow Arts artist fellow (2023-24) exploring local ecologies and materials in Newham.
Adam Moore, Dispersal V – IV – VII (2025). Blind emboss on paper, monochrome white, 57 x 38 cm. Photo courtesy of the artist.