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Print Making

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."
Oprah Winfrey

Exploring images through print making allows for opportunities to make mistakes in a visceral way

I explore themes around environmental impact and personal reflection and find that printmaking -  relief, etching, and collagraph - with their deep scratching and carved lines - wounds on the plate help me tell my story of conservation and  preservation.

Starry Night Interpretation                            2016

Reinterpreting Van Gogh's Starry Night was a journey through many mediums, painting, sculpture, and eventually printmaking.  I decided to land with dry point etching, as the scratches in the perspex plates left an impression of Van Gogh's brushwork, as well as his inner tourmoil and mental health during his life.  I deliberately created the image backwards as a reflection - on his life, and the fact that "artist's only become famous after death" statements that seem to still ring true today.  Also the reflection relates to how we see ourselves through our own lens and how the world perceives us through theirs.  

 

 

I acknowledge the Gimuy Walubara Yidinji,

the  Traditional Custodians of the land on which I live and create.

  Always was always will be Aboriginal land

© Tanya Chapman

2022 

be the change you wish to see in the world

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