| Ref No | 2016.1/E/47 |
| Level | File |
| Extent | 132 |
| Title | Negatives related to Dye's period of experimentation using projection |
| Date | 1982-1983 |
| Description | Large bundle of negatives originally held in an Ilford photographic paper box marked on the front 'Negatives 82/83'. Contains packets of glassine storage envelopes with negatives related to Dye's period of experimentation using projection and/or anamorphosis. Includes negatives of images used in projection accompanied by negatives of works in progress. The majority of envelopes have been marked by Dye with brief descriptions and/or titles. Includes negatives marked with the following titles: 'Muscular Mural' [/1]; 'Weight training diagrams: fragmented and whole' [/2]; 'Images from male nude – painted in halfs' [sic] [/3]; 'Painted Chair (camouflage) [and] textured one [and] textured white room' [/4]; 'Newspaper on floor' [/5]; 'My torso' [/6]; 'Limbo negs' [/7]; 'Misc Objects' [/8]; 'Weight training diagrams in corner' [/9]; 'Anamorphic with cock' [/10]; 'Unfettered on chair in 2 parts' [/11]; 'Rose on piled chairs' [/12]; 'Eagle on piled chairs' [/13]; 'Corner stencil failure [and] Séance II complete' [/14]; 'Eagle Emblem' [/15]; 'Leather Jacket' [/16]; 'Deckchair Phallus' [/17]; 'Linear Torso Folded' [/18]; 'Nude poses for Wrestlers (images overexposed)' [/19]; 'Hostel' [/20]; 'Eagle thru window' [/21]; 'Overlapped jumble' [22]; 'Stencil (Cock with Scissors)' [23]; 'Me over Mirror painted [and] originals' (contains sexually explicit images of Dye straddled over his mirror work) [/24]; 'Stu Diver (Element)' [/25]; 'Stu and Me – July 82' [/26]; 'Séance II negs' [/27]; 'Stu thru doorway' [/28]; 'Painted self-portrait and torso' [/29]; 'Anamorphic' [30]; 'Rosebud stencils' [31]. The glassine envelopes have been retained with the negatives. |
| Notes | According to Dye's notes on the method used in producing these works (2016.1/I/4/4), Dye projected a photographic negative onto a black background and traced round the projected image using white paint. This initial painting was photographed and the negative then projected onto black painted objects, mostly furniture. The image was traced on the painted objects using white paint and then photographed from various angles. Finally, selected negatives from these photographs were then projected onto black paper and traced using white paint. |
| Related Material | See 2016.1/D/42 for photographic prints of the images; 2016.1/E/48 for additional negatives; 2016.1/B/11 for drawings on paper resulting from Dye's experimentation; and 2016.1.I/4/4 for Dye's typescript notes on producing these works. |