Accession Code: wu0385w Title: Slate Quarry, North Wales Date completed: 1965 Medium: Prints Material: Etching Height (mm): 580 Width (mm): 400 Depth (mm): n/a Inscription: Inscribed with title lower left, signed M.L.Carlo Location Name: Picture Store Location Description: Location Floor: 0

When Michael Carlo lived in London in the 1960s he would make regular visits to North Wales to the slate quarries. He was interested in the way that humankind had shaped the landscape.

Using the etching technique, Carlo achieves an image which has hard, defined lines but also tonal variations in the black and white. An etching is a printmaking process where the surface design drawn on a metal plate is eaten away through a chemical process.