Bella Easton
Bella Easton repurposes traditional printmaking techniques such as woodcut, copper plate etching and lithography within a materially expanded and spatial practice. These processes are adapted through sewing, construction and repetition, allowing print to move beyond the page and into immersive installations. She works with multiple plates or blocks to construct her subject, layering mirrored and repeated impressions into complex modular compositions. Architectural structures, ornamental motifs and domestic patterns are fractured, reassembled and densely worked to create image-fields that operate both pictorially and spatially. Printed and stitched panels are configured into suspended veils or large-scale wall works, where transparency and layering are central to the experience. In some works, a hand-dyed colour spectrum forms the ground for overlaid imagery, with natural light shifting the viewer’s perception of depth and detail. In others, sheer silk surfaces hold the monochrome version of the image like its shadow, delicate impressions that eco like ghosts of the past, fleeting, partial and unresolved. The viewer is physically and visually caught between layers, navigating visual echoes and quiet asymmetries that reflect on containment, disorientation and transformation. Modular by design, the installations are adaptable for site-responsive contexts and large-scale exhibition. Easton’s practice reimagines traditional print within a contemporary framework, prioritising tactility, environmental awareness and the tension between image, object and architectural space. Bella Easton is a London-based artist, curator and educator. She studied at the Royal Academy Schools and exhibits widely in the UK and internationally. Recent exhibitions include her solo show Everything Flows (DL Gallery, Athens), Reclaim Reality (rosalux, Berlin), and Lentesalon (Amstelkerk, Amsterdam). She won the Jerwood London Original Print Fair Prize (RA, 2019) and was shortlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize ( National Museum of Liverpool 2016)
Bella Easton repurposes traditional printmaking techniques such as woodcut, copper plate etching and lithography within a materially expanded and spatial practice. These processes are adapted through sewing, construction and repetition, allowing print to move beyond the page and into immersive installations. She works with multiple plates or blocks to construct her subject, layering mirrored and repeated impressions into complex modular compositions. Architectural structures, ornamental motifs and domestic patterns are fractured, reassembled and densely worked to create image-fields that operate both pictorially and spatially. Printed and stitched panels are configured into suspended veils or large-scale wall works, where transparency and layering are central to the experience. In some works, a hand-dyed colour spectrum forms the ground for overlaid imagery, with natural light shifting the viewer’s perception of depth and detail. In others, sheer silk surfaces hold the monochrome version of the image like its shadow, delicate impressions that eco like ghosts of the past, fleeting, partial and unresolved. The viewer is physically and visually caught between layers, navigating visual echoes and quiet asymmetries that reflect on containment, disorientation and transformation. Modular by design, the installations are adaptable for site-responsive contexts and large-scale exhibition. Easton’s practice reimagines traditional print within a contemporary framework, prioritising tactility, environmental awareness and the tension between image, object and architectural space. Bella Easton is a London-based artist, curator and educator. She studied at the Royal Academy Schools and exhibits widely in the UK and internationally. Recent exhibitions include her solo show Everything Flows (DL Gallery, Athens), Reclaim Reality (rosalux, Berlin), and Lentesalon (Amstelkerk, Amsterdam). She won the Jerwood London Original Print Fair Prize (RA, 2019) and was shortlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize ( National Museum of Liverpool 2016)