Loraine Monk | The Actor, 2023
Woodblock
30 x 45 x 5 cm
Edition of 5
Framed
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Loraine Monk uses print to explore beneath the surface of the image. The act of drawing and mark making central to her etching work. Her family were working-class Londoners; inspired by local and community history, her background has influenced her politics, work, and artistic practice. Previously exploring the inequality of power relations and occlude histories of people, places, and ideas. In series on Protests and on animal extinction. She uses the act of cutting to make tactile, issues of inequality greed and political disengagement. Working in both relief and intaglio mediums, she uses Lino, wood engraving wood cut, etching and mono printing. Now exploring the politics of portraiture, she is presently, working on two separate series, The man in the Hat, comprising seven images made over the last eight months, and has just started exploring, close up, large format depictions of Faces, the first of which she completed in April 23 this year. Loraine Monk graduated from Camberwell Printmakers MA course in 2021 She has shown in 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.
Woodblock
30 x 45 x 5 cm
Edition of 5
Framed
Split your payment over 10 months with OwnArt 0% APR. Your monthly payment for this artwork would be £24.00.
Loraine Monk uses print to explore beneath the surface of the image. The act of drawing and mark making central to her etching work. Her family were working-class Londoners; inspired by local and community history, her background has influenced her politics, work, and artistic practice. Previously exploring the inequality of power relations and occlude histories of people, places, and ideas. In series on Protests and on animal extinction. She uses the act of cutting to make tactile, issues of inequality greed and political disengagement. Working in both relief and intaglio mediums, she uses Lino, wood engraving wood cut, etching and mono printing. Now exploring the politics of portraiture, she is presently, working on two separate series, The man in the Hat, comprising seven images made over the last eight months, and has just started exploring, close up, large format depictions of Faces, the first of which she completed in April 23 this year. Loraine Monk graduated from Camberwell Printmakers MA course in 2021 She has shown in 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.
Woodblock
30 x 45 x 5 cm
Edition of 5
Framed
Split your payment over 10 months with OwnArt 0% APR. Your monthly payment for this artwork would be £24.00.
Loraine Monk uses print to explore beneath the surface of the image. The act of drawing and mark making central to her etching work. Her family were working-class Londoners; inspired by local and community history, her background has influenced her politics, work, and artistic practice. Previously exploring the inequality of power relations and occlude histories of people, places, and ideas. In series on Protests and on animal extinction. She uses the act of cutting to make tactile, issues of inequality greed and political disengagement. Working in both relief and intaglio mediums, she uses Lino, wood engraving wood cut, etching and mono printing. Now exploring the politics of portraiture, she is presently, working on two separate series, The man in the Hat, comprising seven images made over the last eight months, and has just started exploring, close up, large format depictions of Faces, the first of which she completed in April 23 this year. Loraine Monk graduated from Camberwell Printmakers MA course in 2021 She has shown in 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.
