Eliza Gwynne

Eliza Gwynne is a Sydney based printmaker who primarily engages with woodblock, monotype and relief techniques. She completed her Bachelor’s degree at the National Art School in 2020.

Gwynne’s current practice observes the disjunction between natural and synthetic suburban environments through woodblock, drawing together her passion for photography and architecture through linear, tonal studies. Her monotype works depict an amalgamation of these environments, creating a series of abstract snapshots inspired by dreamscapes, but ultimately shaped by the unpredictable nature of experimental monoprint processes.

Ultimately personal, her practice explores the interconnected, biotic responses of the chronically ill body through woodblock; carving and hand pressing prints in order to place excess strain on damaged areas of muscle tissue.

#25 | Soundtrack at Dusk, 2020, woodblock print on Stonehenge, 38x57cm, $320.

Dusk is a misprint of a work I made back in 2020, titled “Soundtrack of Your Voice”. One of my first woodblocks after previously having worked primarily with linoleum for relief, I could have almost made a mini-series from the number of times I forgot to mask off the shallow layer of plywood when I was printing. 

The dark texture in the window, was to both myself and my lecturers, more undesirable than misregistration, which is unfortunate looking at it in isolation from the other “correct” editions, as I think it gives the originally still composition a more dynamic feel.