ELEMENTS by Loraine Monk

Hard ground etching

35 x 35 cm

33 x 33 cm

£280

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Artist Statement

Loraine Monk’s visual arts practice derives from a sense of place and community. She creates images using both relief and etching processes.

Her family were working-class Londoners; inspired by local and community history, her background has influenced her politics, academic research and artistic practice.

Previously exploring the inequality of power relations and occlude histories of certain people, places and ideas. She completed one series on Protest movements and then explored the climate crisis and threatened extinction of animal life. She created a series of etchings exploring animal/human hybrids. Combining iconic imagery together to create narratives of transformation.

Recently she has expanded her practice to include wood engraving as well as working in Lino and wood cuts, aquatint, dry point and mono printing.
The act of drawing is central to her printing practice.

She has shown in a number of independent Galleries, group shows and museums, as well as larger mixed shows, including the International Original Print Exhibition , the Society of Women Artists and the Woolwich Contemporary Print fair.

She has exhibited in London, Brighton, Sweden and Germany and completed a residency at Kingston Museum, London.