Grace Gladdish & Lucy McEachern - "A Printmaker & A Sculptor"

Grace Gladdish lives at the foothills of kunanyi at Ferntree with wonderful bush walks at the back of her property. Grace has developed a unique style of hand painted linocuts that are richly coloured and full of detailed observances of the wild landscape around her. She is particularly inspired by the alpine regions of Tasmania and the unique native plants that thrive in these areas.

Grace’s skills are recognised by the wider printmaking community. She has been included in national group exhibitions, runs regular workshops for Hunter Island Press, and was featured in French arts magazine ‘Pratique des Arts’. She also regularly exhibits with the ‘nowhereprint’ collective, a group of Tasmanian printmakers who make work about their island home.

More recently, Grace has begun to cut and tear her linocuts, re-fitting them into collages that become new imagined landscapes. The act of tearing up her work has released a new creativity, ‘drawing’ with the found lines within the original linocuts and finding ways that they serendipitously connect, as if the landscape is dictating the journey that the lines travel. These collages give scope to explore not just the landscape itself, but the artist’s connections to it and relationship with it.

This exhibition with Lucy McEachern promises not to disappoint the viewer.