Kinetic Works page 6 of 6

"Chevrons" Digital print and sandblasted glass.

Moire Patterns

The name moire refers to watered mohair or silk, and has come to name periodic grids and linear meshes which make interference patterns when two or more are superimposed. There are many scientific, technical and artistic uses. Having seen the work of Victor Vasarely, Jesus Soto and other Op artists of the 1950s I started working with kinetic moire in 1965 while a student at Nottingham School of Art where Bridget Riley was a visiting tutor. I systematised the movements at first by hand with ink, compasses and ruling pens as seen here, and scaled up with paint and masking tape. At the Slade I used reeded Perspex to animate silkscreened stripes cut and glued into sequences. In 1982 Tarquin Publications published my book on moire movements, which explained methods for children and young adults, and my interest was again renewed when desktop printing and stencilled sandblasting enabled greater precision.

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