Inked and Pressed Printmaking Exhibition
Group Show by Friends of Printmakers
Saturday, July 18 - Thursday, August 6
Vernissage: Sunday, July 19 1:00 - 4:00 pm
The exhibition highlights printmaking from a traditional and contemporary lens. It brings together a group of artists working with many different printmaking techniques. While some use printmaking to express a shared love of nature, others use it to engage with contemporary issues and ideas. Using processes such as etching, lithography, collagraphy, woodcuts and linocuts, the artists embrace the physicality and discipline of printmaking as a way to slow down, observe closely, and to connect historical methods to present-day conversations.
These works are part of a series of print based mixed media works that reflect on impacts humanity has had on the environment. Each composition developed organically in layers that echo the way ecosystems form and unravel over time. At the centre is a sturgeon, an ancient, living fossil. It is rendered partially obscured, swimming through a shifting landscape. The sturgeon’s endangered status represents not only the endangerment of a species but the broader, often invisible, consequences of human actions. This piece invites viewers to look deeper and consider how seemingly distant political and corporate decisions ripple outward, affecting species, systems, and our future.
These works are part of a series of print based mixed media works that reflect on impacts humanity has had on the environment. Each composition developed organically in layers that echo the way ecosystems form and unravel over time. At the centre is a sturgeon, an ancient, living fossil. It is rendered partially obscured, swimming through a shifting landscape. The sturgeon’s endangered status represents not only the endangerment of a species but the broader, often invisible, consequences of human actions. This piece invites viewers to look deeper and consider how seemingly distant political and corporate decisions ripple outward, affecting species, systems, and our future.
