Bina Shah | Granum, I, 2024
Mokulito collage pinned onto monoprinted washi paper
Media Dimensions: 29 x 46 cm
Image Dimensions: 29 x 46 cm
Unique Work
Unframed only
Bina Shah is a London based visual artist and printmaker. Her childhood memories of growing up in Kenya has evoked a passion of being connected with the land. Her work is site-responsive and deep rooted in both urban and rural environments, exploring the sense of place, resulting in on-going research and curiosity for patterns and structures in her close environment. She observes lines and shapes in the natural or constructed landscape that are traced back into autonomous signs. In their isolated abstract form these signs will trigger new meaning. She collects materials and pigments from the scene to build layers of colours and textures with paint, botanical inks, varnish, and introduces wire, metal and stitching to raise the two-dimensional surface adding three-dimensional elements in her work. This helps her to translate the history of the time and give a sense of place in her work. She loves the trial-and-error method by just mixing and using the various mediums as they come. The faults that come with her way of working she fully embraces. She thinks the imperfections you can detect in all the layers of the works, and the intuitive mixture and use of colours and textures makes her images more sensitive and authentic. She is currently exploring new surfaces to print on including ceramic clay and linen. She has exhibited widely and received numerous awards for printmaking including: Winner of London Centre of Book Arts [LCBA] at East London Printmakers Festival of Print 2023 Excellence in Printmaking Prize ELPS at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2021, Shortlisted for the Boodle Hatfield Print Prize 2020 Woolwich Contemporary Prize at the annual National Original Print Exhibition 2019.
Mokulito collage pinned onto monoprinted washi paper
Media Dimensions: 29 x 46 cm
Image Dimensions: 29 x 46 cm
Unique Work
Unframed only
Bina Shah is a London based visual artist and printmaker. Her childhood memories of growing up in Kenya has evoked a passion of being connected with the land. Her work is site-responsive and deep rooted in both urban and rural environments, exploring the sense of place, resulting in on-going research and curiosity for patterns and structures in her close environment. She observes lines and shapes in the natural or constructed landscape that are traced back into autonomous signs. In their isolated abstract form these signs will trigger new meaning. She collects materials and pigments from the scene to build layers of colours and textures with paint, botanical inks, varnish, and introduces wire, metal and stitching to raise the two-dimensional surface adding three-dimensional elements in her work. This helps her to translate the history of the time and give a sense of place in her work. She loves the trial-and-error method by just mixing and using the various mediums as they come. The faults that come with her way of working she fully embraces. She thinks the imperfections you can detect in all the layers of the works, and the intuitive mixture and use of colours and textures makes her images more sensitive and authentic. She is currently exploring new surfaces to print on including ceramic clay and linen. She has exhibited widely and received numerous awards for printmaking including: Winner of London Centre of Book Arts [LCBA] at East London Printmakers Festival of Print 2023 Excellence in Printmaking Prize ELPS at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2021, Shortlisted for the Boodle Hatfield Print Prize 2020 Woolwich Contemporary Prize at the annual National Original Print Exhibition 2019.
Mokulito collage pinned onto monoprinted washi paper
Media Dimensions: 29 x 46 cm
Image Dimensions: 29 x 46 cm
Unique Work
Unframed only
Bina Shah is a London based visual artist and printmaker. Her childhood memories of growing up in Kenya has evoked a passion of being connected with the land. Her work is site-responsive and deep rooted in both urban and rural environments, exploring the sense of place, resulting in on-going research and curiosity for patterns and structures in her close environment. She observes lines and shapes in the natural or constructed landscape that are traced back into autonomous signs. In their isolated abstract form these signs will trigger new meaning. She collects materials and pigments from the scene to build layers of colours and textures with paint, botanical inks, varnish, and introduces wire, metal and stitching to raise the two-dimensional surface adding three-dimensional elements in her work. This helps her to translate the history of the time and give a sense of place in her work. She loves the trial-and-error method by just mixing and using the various mediums as they come. The faults that come with her way of working she fully embraces. She thinks the imperfections you can detect in all the layers of the works, and the intuitive mixture and use of colours and textures makes her images more sensitive and authentic. She is currently exploring new surfaces to print on including ceramic clay and linen. She has exhibited widely and received numerous awards for printmaking including: Winner of London Centre of Book Arts [LCBA] at East London Printmakers Festival of Print 2023 Excellence in Printmaking Prize ELPS at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2021, Shortlisted for the Boodle Hatfield Print Prize 2020 Woolwich Contemporary Prize at the annual National Original Print Exhibition 2019.
