Lacuna (letter 18)
Artist
Banfield, Elizabeth
Production date
2020
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Object Detail
Title
Lacuna (letter 18)
Production date
2020
Medium
linocuts on kozo tissue paper with Solander box
Measurements
book: 25.5cm x 25.5cm x 1.5cm
Object type
Edition
1/3
Interpretive text
Elizabeth Banfield is a Victorian-based, print and artist book maker who specialises in linocut printmaking using Japanese tissue paper. Her practice focuses on layering, translucency, pattern and colour-mixing facilitated by her chosen papers. Ongoing themes the artist explores include evolving landscape and memory, and the resulting associations she draws from these themes. Banfield’s choice of the delicate and what she identifies as the 'ephemeral nature' of paper, symbolically contributes to this investigation.
Of 'Lacuna (letter 18)' the artist writes “correspondence is a theme I often return to; prints become letters that cannot be written or sent in any other way. With this book I am investigating the idea of a lacuna, a gap in a manuscript, a missing portion of a story. I have built layers of finely carved abstract text to create background tone, and the spaces between become a shadow of a tree as it falls. Progression through the pages of the book makes each section of the tree stand again. Making prints is a meditative process; carving lino, stitching pieces of tissue: an attempt to mend, remember and record.” Elizabeth Banfield 2022.
Banfield's work is held in numerous public collections including the Art Gallery of South Australian, Monash University Library, Rare Books VIC, Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, John Curtin Gallery, WA and University of the West of England, Bristol UK.
Artspace Mackay 2022
Of 'Lacuna (letter 18)' the artist writes “correspondence is a theme I often return to; prints become letters that cannot be written or sent in any other way. With this book I am investigating the idea of a lacuna, a gap in a manuscript, a missing portion of a story. I have built layers of finely carved abstract text to create background tone, and the spaces between become a shadow of a tree as it falls. Progression through the pages of the book makes each section of the tree stand again. Making prints is a meditative process; carving lino, stitching pieces of tissue: an attempt to mend, remember and record.” Elizabeth Banfield 2022.
Banfield's work is held in numerous public collections including the Art Gallery of South Australian, Monash University Library, Rare Books VIC, Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, John Curtin Gallery, WA and University of the West of England, Bristol UK.
Artspace Mackay 2022
Credit line
Mackay Regional Council Art Collection, purchased with the Dalyrmple Bay Coal Terminal Artists' Book Fund 2022.
Accession number
2022.7
