PRINTED
We invited London based printmakers to the Genesis Cinema Gallery for an exhibition about printmaking.
Purchase artwork from this exhibition
Raquel Torre Maceiras
After many years developing her craft as a painter, the London/Berlin based artist Raquel decided to experiment with Linocut prints in 2019. Since then she has almost exclusively dedicated herself to this form and selling her prints and commissioned artwork through her Instagram.
I find lino cut prints the best medium to express my internal world as it allows me combine messy and busy backgrounds with thick lined realistic figures.
Judit Prieto
Judit was born in Barcelona but works and lives in London. She graduated in interior design in 2002 and worked in this field for 11 years. She started painting in oil in 2009. A year after she moved to London and in 2014 completed a Foundation Diploma Course at the Hampstead School of Art with distinction. She was selected for a Tate Modern Community Learning Award at the Rootstein Hopkins Drawing Exhibition in 2013. Since May 2017 she moved to a studio in Bow, Limehouse Art Foundation (ACAVA).
Judit’s artworks are mainly inspired by nature. Inspiration plays an important role in the process of her work because she expresses what she feels which gives an originality to her art. Colour and form take a journey from representation towards abstraction, an open-ended journey which allows a sense of freedom. The Africa and South America prints are from the Series Fields of the World inspired by the land and feeling of the continent. The Air Colours 2 and 5 prints are inspired by the sky.
Unfamiliar Spirits
Unfamiliar Spirits is a freelance illustrator, printmaker, and painter originally from Galicia. Their work has been featured in books, magazines and exhibitions. Their art goes hand in hand with their tarot reading and occult practices being sometimes both the same.
Unfamiliar Spirit’s art is inspired by visions, dreams, the esoteric world and myths. Using their own personal experiences and circumstances as a source of concepts all dressed up and disguised in an air of mystique. Atemporality seems to be a target on their works as well as some sort of mystery and humour that wraps up the whole story.
Sarah Vines
Sarah is a Printmaker and Creative based in London. She is currently studying an MA in Print at the Royal College of Art. Sarah specializes in traditional methods of screen print and looks to forward lesser known screen printing techniques and machinery. Her interests focusses on moments of quiet and interior spaces, and she develops much of her work from her sketches which she draws in situ.
I am very interested in the human moments of quiet which we all experience every day. Those moments when we forget ourselves, get lost in thought, or become so distracted by something that we fully relax. This, combined with home, interior and garden spaces are what inspires my practice. Much of my work derives from my sketchbook drawings. I aim to capture the feelings and emotions surrounding that moment and the subject, and then imbue this back into the final print.
Katya Kan
An idiosyncratic specimen of globalization, I was born in Almaty, Kazakhstan, my father being North Korean and my mother being Russian. Having caught a glimpse of the ex-USSR, I have a nostalgic, conflicting perception of political and cultural systems. The image of Korea evokes for me a tantalizing, fragile and beautifully moving atmosphere.
Devoid of a homeland, I focus my art on the themes of ethnical atomization, emptiness and nostalgia. Unable to fully assimilate into any one culture, I find myself as an outsider with an eclectic artistic taste. Art represents the act of seeking, assembling and immortalizing beauty. Through my artistic practice, I recreate the state of inspiration and emancipation, experienced during my childhood. My works strive to capture the ephemeral impressions.