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The production of an artefact or object, something tangible and tactile, is fundamental to my practice and my enjoyment of making…
Printmaking, Women and the Haptic - exploring the connections between printmaking, touch and women artists.
This paper sets out to consider what are the characteristics of printmaking that appeal to women artists and to what extent the elements of touch and the haptic are important for women printmakers…
What can Barbara Kasten’s approach to abstract photography tell us about the relevance of physical and manual processes to contemporary art in an era of advancing digitisation?
I became interested in Barbara Kasten’s work when I was investigating cyanotypes. The lockdown-precipitated retreat from the physical into the digital world – for work, school, culture, friendships, family – had thrown into sharp relief the importance to my practice of artefacts or products of artistic practice…
