Press Release

Innova Art, the award-winning digital media specialist, is sponsoring two inspiring projects at the Moniker Art Fair, The Old Truman Brewery, London E1, 5–8 October 2017. The US mixed media artist Ian Kuali’i , a Moniker Art Fair Featured Artist, has created one of his signature, handcut paper installations especially for the fair. Kuali’i, whose approach is based on “the meditative process of destroying to create”, will be encouraging visitors around and inside his immersive paper sculpture, a work that, as always, draws as much on his ancestral ties to the indigenous people of the Southwest United States and Hawai’i, and his interest in occult symbolism, mysticism and global politics, as the Hip Hop music and art scene that first fired him up as an artist. In a 2016 interview, Kuali’i explained the evolution of his approach: "From graffiti writing, I wanted to simplify the process. I found stencilling through that. I ended up just appreciating the cut more than spraying… It’s a super challenging engineering approach from the standard stencil cutting way." "When you start looking at more of the motion of how some of the cut paper flows and the construction of it — or deconstruction, rather — you start seeing the basic motion of letter form from graffiti. You start seeing the motion of something in passing from pushing a skateboard. There’s a whisper of an old pattern from an Eddie Reategui mini-deck. Even with the cut elements, there’s power."1 In another exciting move, Innova Art is also sponsoring the ‘Postcode Print Release’ project, offering local residents their own very special take-out from the fair: a free print. The image will be provided by the brilliantly witty Mr Frivolous – “an artist [...]

The multi-award-winning Innova Art – the first UK-based inkjet media specialist founded this century – is relaunching its brand in China, surely the world’s most exciting marketplace. The move reintroduces to the Chinese print market a range of digital fine art and photo media originally introduced to the market via Innova’s private label service more than ten years ago. A range of inkjet fine art and photo media that has been developed in close association with artists, photographers and print experts – and a brand that has won rave reviews and awards from all around the world. The Innova Art brand: tradition and technological prowess Why choose Innova Art? Because Innova Art brings together both the centuries-old traditions of fine art papermaking and the dynamism of 21st century digital technology. Customers love the fusion of new, cutting edge ideas with methods honed over centuries. "You can’t cheat on history and you can’t fake tradition,” says Wayne Connelly, MD of Innova Art. “Papermaking, which originated in ancient China, is one of the world’s oldest technologies, and the established ways of doing things have helped refine and enrich the product for more than a thousand years." "The difference with digital technology is all the extras it adds – the flexibility, speed and cost efficiencies you need to prosper in today’s fast-moving and competitive markets. With Innova Art media, you can keep the look and feel of traditional media but be certain that every image you print, whichever of our substrates your opt for and whatever the print run, will be rendered immaculately." Innova Art Editions: what’s good enough for Michelangelo… At the forefront of the Innova Art relaunch is the Editions range, comprising two category-busting photo papers [...]

Innova Art Ltd, a worldwide leader in digital fine art and specialty papers, announces the appointment of Mark Nacey as North American Sales Manager. Mr. Mark Nacey has nearly 20 years of working experience in the photographic and fine art printing industry. A graduate of RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) School of Photographic Arts & Sciences, his experience ranges from work as a professional photographer and commercial re-toucher; and over the past decade as a fine art capture and reproduction expert including a focus on technical sales and business development. Innova Art will be utilizing Nacey’s skills in both sales as well as technical advisement including profiling, product testing and new product rollouts. Innova has invested heavily in recent years; developing proprietary coatings and in adding a new European distribution and converting hub based at its 4.5 acre site in Andover, Hampshire, UK. Wayne Connelly comments, “Our investments continue to yield significant growth in new markets and channels as well as our existing core audience in the fine papers category. Mark’s appointment strengthens our North America distribution model while helping us to consolidate gains and to seek out new business opportunities. His presence will also allow us more end-user interaction, keeping a pulse on the present and listening whole-heartedly to deliver the best solutions to positively impact their business well into the future.” About Innova Art Ltd: When it comes to colour-critical digital printing and display, Innova Art delivers innovative, high-quality solutions to the photographer, artist and graphic arts professional. In addition to an award-winning range of digital inkjet media, including the recently introduced Editions range, Innova also offers innovative display solutions, custom converting solutions, and is consistently at the forefront of development for new [...]