Woodblock
Media Dimensions: 66 x 97 cm
Image Dimensions: 66 x 97 cm
Edition of 10
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Kristen McClarty ARE is a South African printmaker working in Cape Town. McClarty is a member of the South African collective The Printing Girls and was elected to the RE Printmakers in February 2025. McClarty’s focus is woodcut, although she incorporates other processes and materials into her practice. McClarty submits woodcuts from two series in 2025. The first works are from McClarty’s abstract series Head Under Water where the colour and shapes tell a story of the artist’s body underwater. In this series, McClarty played along a continuum of process, from carefully executed woodcuts to painterly monotypes. In this way, McClarty was able to build up a series that populates a spectrum of intention and time, from premeditated to instinctive. McClarty presents three woodcuts from this series, all bleed prints, with colour extending to the very edges of filigree Japanese papers. A catalogue of the full series is available. McClarty also submits works from her series A Sense of Place, which explores her ritualistic interaction with the coast near her home and invites the viewer to engage with a multisensory tableau of elements telling a story of connection. This series now includes works on paper and textile, a short art film in development, installations of artefacts and projected sculptural elements. McClarty presents three reduction woodcuts on Japanese papers, including a small piece printed off a natural branch plank, with evident marks of chainsaw and machining embraced into the woodcut. McClarty has exhibited in the UK at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair (2022, 2023, 2024), The London Art Fair (2024), London Original Print Fair (2025), RE Original Prints 2025 (where she was awarded the Clifford Chance Acquisition Award) as well as widely in South Africa. Her work is held in private and public collections in South Africa and worldwide.
Woodblock
Media Dimensions: 66 x 97 cm
Image Dimensions: 66 x 97 cm
Edition of 10
Split your payment over 10 months with OwnArt 0% APR. Your monthly payment for this artwork would be £99.00.
Kristen McClarty ARE is a South African printmaker working in Cape Town. McClarty is a member of the South African collective The Printing Girls and was elected to the RE Printmakers in February 2025. McClarty’s focus is woodcut, although she incorporates other processes and materials into her practice. McClarty submits woodcuts from two series in 2025. The first works are from McClarty’s abstract series Head Under Water where the colour and shapes tell a story of the artist’s body underwater. In this series, McClarty played along a continuum of process, from carefully executed woodcuts to painterly monotypes. In this way, McClarty was able to build up a series that populates a spectrum of intention and time, from premeditated to instinctive. McClarty presents three woodcuts from this series, all bleed prints, with colour extending to the very edges of filigree Japanese papers. A catalogue of the full series is available. McClarty also submits works from her series A Sense of Place, which explores her ritualistic interaction with the coast near her home and invites the viewer to engage with a multisensory tableau of elements telling a story of connection. This series now includes works on paper and textile, a short art film in development, installations of artefacts and projected sculptural elements. McClarty presents three reduction woodcuts on Japanese papers, including a small piece printed off a natural branch plank, with evident marks of chainsaw and machining embraced into the woodcut. McClarty has exhibited in the UK at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair (2022, 2023, 2024), The London Art Fair (2024), London Original Print Fair (2025), RE Original Prints 2025 (where she was awarded the Clifford Chance Acquisition Award) as well as widely in South Africa. Her work is held in private and public collections in South Africa and worldwide.
