Busacca Gallery

'Gathering' by Artist Dominic Rouse: is a 24"x20" toned silver gelatin print in an edition of eight made from a digitally composed 5"x4" negative. - "My images are produced as toned silver gelatin prints in limited editions of eight and sixteen. They are hand-made in a traditional 'wet' darkroom using an enlarger and photographic paper developed and then bleached and toned using chemical solutions. When collecting the elements that I need to compose an image I shoot on colour transparency material because it is much more scanner friendly than negative material which is designed to be projected onto photographic paper and has a coarser composition which shows up all too readily as granularity in high resolution drum scans. When finished, the RGB greyscale file is then written/exposed to black and white negative material (usually T-Max) using a film recorder/writer which is essentially the scanning process in reverse. This negative is processed in the usual way of any piece of exposed film and from the resulting negative the prints are made. It might be worth mentioning that digital negatives are often better than those made in a camera because of the controls that imaging software offers. One obvious advantage is the 'sharpening' filter which, used with discretion, produces a crisp negative result that contributes enormously to print quality."

www.dominicrouse.com/print/tto.pdf

"The style of his imagery may appear to be rooted in the past but it relies heavily on a fusion of state-of-the-art digital technologies & traditional photographic processes to produce seamless transitions between the world of contemporary digital art and the timeless qualities of black and white photography." -

"The work is beautiful and intriguing. It is a delight to see it in person and to be able to appreciate the exquisite tonal qualities." Paul Paletti, Louisville USA (Collector) -



"These provocative fantasies provide endless opportunities for speculation. They are not only challenging but alluring, as is every Rouse print; an impeccably crafted thing of beauty." Mark Power, photographer and collector, Washington DC USA -



"Dominic Rouse's art goes beyond a prosaic depiction of our world , beyond our reason and logic and beyond what we have claimed as beautiful. And beyond the subtle textures of his exquisite prints lies that art; dark in tone and rich in the symbols of the unexpected - toned silver tableaux of undeclared meaning." David Genovesi, Director of the ArtRom Gallery in Rome, Italy