Printmaking


 Eliza Gwynne (b.1999) is a Sydney based designer and printmaker working on unceded Gadigal Land.

My printmaking practice draws on my love of photography and form through detailed studies of fleeting experiences and environments.

Prior to achieving remission from chronic illnesses, my work revolved around health and not feeling present within the ill body.
My monoprint and book works are a more abstract means of capture and record, with organic and distorted recollections.

Artist CV
HOME STUDIO
Float
Together
Lookout
Shadow


2019

A selection of older works produced during my time at NAS, which informed the direction of my current art practice.

Float, 2019
Lino Print on Fabriano Rosapina

Together, 2019
Shadow, 2019
Lookout, 2019
Lino Prints on Fabriano Rosapina

You’ll be Fine, 2019
Excerpts from Aritst Book
Aquatint, Etching, Woodblock and Typewriter Copy on Rice Paper and Hahnemuhle
17x23cm


Sorry
 Un Momento
Wait

Almost There, 2020
Missing You
Soundtrack of Your Voice



  • RELIEF, 2020


Created in my final year at Art School; a demonstration of my style more rapidly evolving into my current practice.

Our practices were influenced by adapting to our circumstances during lockdown with few resources. The use of materials like ricepaper for hand-pressing and cheap plywood woodblocks were ideal for the time and continues to shape how I work today.

Un Momento, 2020 
Sorry, 2020
Wait, 2020
Lino Prints on Wenzhou Rice Paper 
17x26cm 

Missing You, 2020
    pictured: ed.1 of 5
Almost There, 2020
    pictured: ed.1 of 5
Woodblock Prints on Fabriano Rosaspina
29.5 x 51.5cm

Shallow Steps, 2020
    pictured: ed. 1 of 4
Lone Bike, 2020
    pictured: ed. 1 of 6
Woodblock Prints on Stonehenge
38.5 x 28.5cm

Bridging Memories,
Constructing Realities, 2020
Woodblock Print on Fabriano Rosapina
42.5x56cm
    pictured: ed. 1 of 4 (eds. 1-2 n/a)

Soundtrack of your Voice, 2020
Woodblock Print on Stonehenge
38.5 x 57cm
    pictured: ed. 1 of 2 (all n/a)


  • MONOPRINT, 2020

Another evolving process I developed in my last year at NAS was my method of recording and monoprinting.

Developed with experiments of layering and abstraction to disrupt my control of the original monoprint image, my technique imitates the way the mind can mislead and distort the recollection of memories.

Trial #3, 2020
Monoprint on (Unknown) Cold Press Paper 

Deluge, 2020
Monoprint on Hahnemuhle
Private collection

Departed, 2020
Monoprint on Hahnemuhle
Private collection


Steady Noise

Street 1

Street 2
Street 3
all photo credits for biotic and detach: Peter Morgan

      • BIOTIC, 2020

        a selection of woodblocks, hand pressed on rice paper, which were exhibited in the 2020 National Art School BFA Grad Show.

        Biotic is a body of work which focuses on the material processes of carving and hand pressing prints. These works represent a coming-to-terms with the new limitations of the medically compromised body.

        Steady Noise, 2020
        Woodblock Print on Wenzhou Rice Paper
        framed: 70.5 x 84.5 cm,
        unframed: 63.5 x 79.7 cm
        pictured: ed.1 of 5 (ed. 1-3 n/a)

        Street 1, 2020
           pictured: ed.1 of 10 (ed. 1-3 n/a)
        Street 2, 2020
           pictured: ed. 1 of 10 (ed. 1 n/a)
        Street 3, 2020
           pictured: ed. 1 of 10 (ed. 1-3 n/a)
        Woodblock Prints on Wenzhou Rice Paper
        framed: 39.7 x 44.5 cm,
        unframed: 28 x 34.3 cm


        bridge to where?
        whisper goodnight
        waiting, ready
        red snow
        drained
        overhead

        all photo credits for biotic and detach: Peter Morgan

        • DETACH, 2020

        Developing a technique of erasing and layering water-based, the creation and modification of these dreamscape monoprints are reminiscent of analogue darkroom processes with multiple exposures and distorted film.

        bridge to where?, 2020
        waiting, ready, 2020
        Monoprints on Watercolour Paper
        21 x 29.7cm

        whisper goodnight, 2020
        red snow, 2020
        Monoprint on Watercolour Paper
        14.7 x 21cm

        overhead, 2020
        drained, 2020
        Monoprint on Watercolour Paper
        21 x 14.7 cm

        all monoprints exhibited were sold.
        3 were acquired for the NAS archive.

        read more about Detach



            • MONOPRINT, 2021

              a continuation of my detach monoprint series and the layout design for a book which documents my process and introduces the versatile process of monoprinting.

              Detach, Behind the Process
              Designed by Eliza Gwynne
              Research Project, Book Layout (30pgs)
              (Digital Mockups)

              see more layout Design


              Return
              Static
              Lone Thought
              Construction in Distance
              Company

              • 2021

              Return, 2021
                  pictured: ed. 1 of 10
              (eds. 1-4 n/a)
              Static, 2021
                  pictured: ed. 1 of 10 
              (ed. 1 n/a)
              Lone Thought, 2021
                  pictured: ed. 1 of 10
              (ed. 1-3 n/a)
              Woodblock Prints on Rice Paper
              22x28cm

              Construction in Distance, 2021
              Woodblock Print on Rice Paper
              38.5 x 57cm
              pictured: ed. 1 of 5
              all editions available

              Company, 2021
              Woodblock Print on Rice Paper
              38.5 x 57cm
              pictured: ed. 1 of 5
              all editions available


              • Happy Collision, 2022
                before it rains

              familiarity
              Via del Poggio

                  • WOODBLOCK, 2022

                    a before taking a small (semi) hiatus from my artistic practice for a couple of years to focus on work and my design degree, I exhibited with and designed the marketing (pre-study of design theory) of Happy Collision, a Pop-up exhibition in March of 2022 with Design Weaver Sydney, Sultana Botanica and KAH Glass at 7 Clovelly Rd

                      see more layout Design

                      before it rains, 2022
                      Woodblock Print on Stonehenge
                      44 x 53cm
                      pictured: ed. 1 of 8
                      all editions available

                      familiarity, 2022
                      Woodblock Print on Stonehenge
                      38.5 x 42.7cm
                      pictured: ed. 2 of 5
                      (ed. 1 n/a)
                      Via del Poggio, 2022
                      Woodblock Print on Stonehenge
                      38.5 x 42.7cm
                      pictured: ed. 2 of 5
                      (ed. 1 n/a)





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