Anna Gallwey

Monoprint on Somerset tubsized paper
20 x 15 x 3cm
Artist Statement

My practice utilises printmaking to explore themes of lineage, kinship and the production of narrative. Inspired by myths, archetypes and tropes, I source imagery related to the bloodline. Each storyline challenges the linearity of the bloodline in some way, coming together to construct a visual narrative of ancestry and relatedness.

The work draws upon traditional devices of storytelling such as the silhouette and motifs, along with employing a cast of ambiguous characters. This narrative is subverted through the use of patterning, repetition and mutations to hint that these narratives perhaps have their own ‘genetic code’.