Selfie-non-selfie. Artist photographed by other teacher, 2019 .

Contemporary printmaking is the spine of my artmaking processes. My art practice is manifold and shifting through personal narratives. I incorporate analog photography, drawing and painting materials into the layers of the print process. Most recently I have used industrial processes to cut up and complete the work. Often using skilled trade practices and including found, recycled objects and contemporary processes of laser cutting with digital media. Most recently extending my printmaking processes by developing suites of objects as installation.

I ‘tell stories’ within my art practice. As a hybrid printmaker I make works through extended and intuitive research often incorporating collective or family histories, documenting place through site specific memory. This pathway within the artmaking process often decides the materials chosen, then the ‘story’ within the work chooses the surface to receive the print matrix and often the print process itself.

My specialist print based skills are Photo Lithography and Silkscreen. However I also use different direct drawing and painterly approaches to construct and form the print matrix.

My career as a contemporary artist is multi tangent using a variety of media. My studio history spans over 35 years integrating elements of the human form, abstraction, family history, site specific memory and landscape.

Featured Artist Linda Swinfield – Biographical Statement

As a young art student I majored in black and white analogue photography and experimental painting at Meadowbank Technical College in Sydney. Photography and drawing has remained a constant diary for me to record events, research, and develop ideas.

In 1983 I enrolled in a Bachelor of Visual Arts at City Art Institute (University of NSW) where I majored in Drawing and Lithography. And it is there that a passion for printmaking begun.
During my Masters project at The University of Newcastle, I traveled to Melbourne to develop my Lithography skills with a week-long workshop with Peter Lancaster at Lancaster Press. This is where all the skills of my youth began to merge.