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This piece is a folded dyptich that isn’t. The piece is a handmade woodcut but instead is a Lithograph.
Its design employs an awkward hybridised visual language that aims to duplicate the urgency and authority of the printed word in the public sphere yet is intended for private consumption.

Played out by the suspect hand of an artist, the poor design and variable typography code extinct cultural moments through a number of opposing processes and techniques that acknowledges dissent as an aesthetic model to be adopted at will when in fact the opposite is most likely to be invoked against any understanding of the original and its context.

Biography
David Osbaldeston (b. 1968 Middlesbrough, England) lives and works in Manchester. He studied BA Fine Art at Sheffield City Polytechnic in 1989-92 and went on to complete an MA in Fine Art at Manchester Metropolitan University 2000–2002. His work questions the positioning and reception of art within the model of the gallery and the structures that surround it. As The Editor, his 5-year self-published Xerox project Stellar, used drawing, collage and text to produce an idiosyncratic response to the work of various artists and galleries. Osbaldeston’s activities question the assumed position of the artist as a reliable author where the producer of authentic experience is undermined through the reproduction, disturbance, and exploration of conventions and norms within our experience of contemporary culture's relationship to daily life. Both hand-made and digital forms of production are often deployed to describe the physical presence of material, with a nod towards the capability of it producing social change through its dissemination within the shattered mirror of other historical contexts. Recent exhibitions include (2007) Gest: Future Criticism at the Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, London; Frozen Tears III, Koenig Books, London, Dexter Sinister & Creative Time, New York; (2006) Your Answer is Mine at Matt's Gallery London; Despatch 124 EAST, Norwich; (2005) 10 Point Plan For a Better Cornerhouse, international 3 and Cornerhouse, Manchester; Not Yet Night/Babak Ghazi at Studio Voltaire, London; Publish and be Damned, Distribution Fair and Touring Exhibition, London, CASCO, Utrecht; Social Club, works on and with paper at Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool; (2004) Artist's Commission for Put About, Book Works, London; Romantic Detachment at PS1 MoMA, New York; Slimvolume at Redux, London and Outpost Norwich; PILOT:1 International Art Forum, Limehouse, London; Friday 13, works on and with paper at Galleri s.e., Bergen; (2003) Copy Cat, Aarhus Art Academy, Denmark and Mess Hall, Chicago; I Am A Curator at the Chisenhale Gallery, London; Translator, VANE, at The Guildhall, Newcastle Upon Tyne; (2002) Serial Context, Visual Research Centre, Dundee Contemporary Arts. David Osbaldeston is represented by Matt’s Gallery, London.

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