Over the last few days everything has come together nicely and I’ve been able to produce this beautiful work below. It’s a visual representation of every imaged work, sorted by date of production, in the Prints and Printmaking collection. Click to enlarge.

This version is relatively small, and the data cuts off at 1980. The larger version has more data and bigger thumbnails, allowing you to explore part of the national collection up close and in impressive detail.

7 decades of Australian Printmaking in 300px.

I’m very pleased.

I’ve spent the last few weeks looking at and developing my understanding of the data. The grid below is important because it’d the first that uses data about the actual works produced. The boxes remained coloured by gender, but they are sized by the mount of works they have in the collection. In this example, Mike Parr has 230 works, therefore his box in the grid is 230 x 230px wide. You can still make out lots of 1 x 1 boxes at the top, these are artists that just have 1 work in the collection. The huge white box at the bottom is actually a number of boxes for different printmaking collectives, the key one being the Australian Print Workshop with over 3200 works.