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Lace is a response to my immersion in the Tasmanian/ Lutruwita environment. As a visitor, the culture and imagery of ‘island’ seemed to impact every part of life in Tasmania. I found myself repeatedly noticing archipelago-like structures emerging in my drawing. These ranged from lichen isles down tree trunks to the webs of sea-foam which seemed to me like charts, washed away with the next wave. Collecting these natural suggestions of micro-islands became the basis of my print-making practice while in Tasmania. Lace captures the concentric circles of white wash from the Tasman Peninsula, solidifying a brief collision between land and sea through a long printmaking process.
Lace was created using a combination of aquatinting and mezzotinting on copper. Originally rocked, the plate was finished with an aquatint before being scraped and burnished to reveal the seafoam from the velvet black.