Chris Lawry, Back of the Shops, 2023. Linocut, edition of 10, 50 x 62cm. Courtesy: the artist and Tacit Art, Melbourne.

Chris Lawry has been creating traditional lino, woodcut prints and monotype prints since late 2009, the result of a chance encounter with l’Estampe Contemporaine market in Paris, an artists’ market entirely devoted to printmaking. It inspired her to change her artistic direction. Previously she had been a part time painter and part time teacher.

Lawry’s prints are traditionally printed by hand on an etching press and printed onto archival Italian or Japanese paper. Subject matter is diverse dependent upon the immediacy of her environment – whether it’s an extended road trip in regional Victoria, Japan’s Nakasendo Way or simply the forests near to where she lives in the Dandenong Ranges on the outskirts of Melbourne.

Somewhere Near Here sees Lawry focussing on local subject matter – the up close and personal views from walking tracks cutting through her local forests with unfurling ferns and towering gums, the local settlement nestled in the hills built around the railway station.

Opening Event: Wednesday 21 June, 6.30 – 8pm.

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