David Batchelor

‘CHROMOPHILIA’

David Batchelor

CHROMOPHILIA

David Batchelor’s ‘CHROMOPHILIA’ is a series of twelve screen prints available to buy as a set or individually.

AtelierJI first collaborated with artist and writer, David Batchelor to produce the ‘Chromoscreen 01’ and ‘Chromoscreen 02’ original limited edition silkscreen printed artworks for Tate in 2025.

This new series, ‘CHROMOPHILIA’ developed over the spring and summer of 2025 (twenty five years since his book CHROMOPHOBIA), marks a new chapter in the development of his printed works.

David Batchelor has had a constant dialogue with colour in print, sculpture, words, drawings and photography since his very first solo exhibitions in the 1990’s. One of his most popular written texts “CHROMOPHOBIA’ he investigates how colour in western culture has often been cast as the villain, feared or perceived as a dangerous element. In ‘CHROMOPHILIA’ Batchelor celebrates colour, holding his sculptural works in mind whilst playfully reimagining them as two dimensional colour fields, the geometry countered with torn elements and then committed to print where specialist ink allow his totems of colour to lift from the substrate, edges become present, the sculpture existing once again.

“Colour is uncontainable. It effortlessly reveals the limits of language and evades our best attempts to impose a rational order on it. To work with colour is to become acutely aware of the insufficiency of language and theory – which is both disturbing and pleasurable.” David Batchelor

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David Batchelor’s ‘CHROMOPHILIA’ series is available to buy as a set or individually.

‘CHROMOPHILIA’ is available as a box set of twelve prints including one original collage, a box set of twelve prints or as individual prints. Paper & image 595mm x 810mm on Madrid Litho paper (350 gsm). Printed in structured catalysed ink and vinyl to deliver deep colours and a sculptural raised surface.

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“This suite of twelve screen prints is based on a series of collages I have been making for the past two years. The collages are derived from an on-going group of spray-painted concrete sculptures, which are in turn adapted from another group of sculptures, which themselves came from . . . That is the way work gets made in my studio: everything is partially connected to what came before it and will have some relationship with what comes after it. As a result, there is no clear starting point or end point.”

“At the same time, the prints are their own thing. Each is a stack of between two and seven brightly coloured elements. Each is an imaginary sculpture of more or less pure colour. I wanted every stack to be a one-off balance of semi-regular shapes, and to have its own unique play of colours. I wanted the colours to be as vivid as possible, but also to be dense and as physical as possible.”

“This is why screen printing felt like the best medium for the translation of the collages. Screen printing can produce the strongest, sharpest colours, and it can also allow those colours to sit on the paper rather than be absorbed into it. Atelier JI developed a unique process designed to fully bring out those qualities I was looking for in the prints. The results are even better than I expected them to be.” David Batchelor, Nov 2025.

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