Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre

2026 Muswellbrook Art Prize

Dissembling Assembly - Entrainment

Chris Hagen

Dissembling Assembly - Entrainment, 2025 Monoprint relief etching and blind embossment 27.5 x 25 cm

A series exploring the tensions between knowledge and understanding, data and interpretation, what is said and what is done. Each combines relief etching and blind embossment of the same plate, producing a variable subtle lifework wash, and a separate visually “silent” but intensely topographic layer revealed more by touch than by light. The result is a tension between the visually appealing and haptically satisfying,each simultaneously overlaying and underlying the other.