3 PRINTMAKERS

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Chris Lawry’s lino cut prints are printed by hand on an etching press onto archival Italian or Japanese paper. The style of lino cut design she favours, is tonal – black, white, and shades of grey. She enjoys every aspect of the process: the choice of subject, the choosing of a cutting style, making the thousands of necessary decisions during the cutting itself, and finally the thrill of pulling a new print off the press.

Her favourite subjects are often forests – she really loves trees. This collection includes portraits – of both trees and people. By the time she has spent a few weeks making a portrait, whether human or other, they have become personalties she feels she knows, and loves to share. 

Chris has a Dip Ed. Art and worked in secondary education as an art teacher in Melbourne for over 30 years. She exhibits her works across Australia.

Lana transfers drawings to solar etching plates for traditional intaglio printmaking, preferencing less-toxic processes. Since 2021, she has been experimenting with combining wet and dry printmaking techniques, including developing an economical lithography process.

Lana is the author of “Superimposed”, a printmaking game for communities in Victoria, now in it’s second year.

Her work investigates women’s mental health, femaleness and the consequences of cultural pressures.

Lana de Jager obtained a BA Honours in Advertising and after 2 years teaching Graphic Design, History of Art and Drawing, she followed a career in Graphic Design. In 2016 de Jager started producing art full-time and building a career. The result has been over 50 gallery exhibitions since February 2017, including 12 solo exhibitions.

Brenda's work explores our relationship with existence, drawing inspiration from the Victorian memento mori aesthetic, navigating themes of loss and mourning. As an artist she is not contained to a single technique, she works both sculpturally and in 2D . Frequently she works with cast, fused and blown glass, using them as a substrate for her painting and screen printed elements. She occasionally incorporates unconventional materials such as found objects and human hair to enhance the narrative.

Brenda has a Bachelor of Ceramic Design majoring in glass from Monash University. Her work in represented in collections both domestically and internationally.