I learned how to screen print under the guidance of Hannah Tilson and Otis Blease in Summer 2026. I wanted to see how experimenting with screen printing could inform, challenge (and maybe even supersede!) my risograph practice.
I got into risograph printing at London Centre for Book Arts after going there to learn paper marbling. At that time I was mostly working in narrative-based performance about sexual politics alongside facilitating sex education workshops in museums and really wanted to inject my dry words with a process that was wet, messy and hands-on.
I now feel the same about risograph printing – it’s given me the ability to think in layers and to produce en masse but I’m yearning for a process that is wet, messy and hands-on again.
I began making zines and prints by drawing and collaging onto paper but I’ve recently been using more and more digital means. I want to “regress” and get back to the visceral flicks, smears and splodges of actual marks on actual surfaces.
I wasn’t looking for any concrete end-result, more of a new way to understand who I am as a printmaker.
I’ve decided that I’m the kind of printmaker who makes experimental abstract monoprints. These monoprints are fragments that fit into series through a shared palette of colours and imagery…. hmmmmmm even the language is new to me and definitely still a work in progress!
