Liz Collini
Liz Collini is a conceptual printmaker and visual poet whose work transforms the written word into spatial experience, revealing language not just as communication, but as architecture, ambiguity, and absence.
There is a sense of confusion and obfuscation as scattered words and images lie on the canvas in a perennial draft. Upon reflection, Collini’s abstract usage of text and language amid unrestrained forms and colours culminates in a cohesive visual experience.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
Pages – The Setting, Three Stories, Nailsworth – solo show 2022 | Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair (with East London Printmakers) 2021 |A Print is for Life, One Paved Court, Richmond, London 2021 | Expanded Drawing, AIR Gallery, Altincham, Cheshire 2020
AWARDS:
Bainbridge Award, Pushing Print 2011 | Juliet Gomperts Trust Award 2010 | Worshipful Company of Architects Drawing Prize, RA Summer Exhibition (joint winner) 2009
EDUCATION:
MA in Fine Art Printmaking from the Royal College of Art (graduated 2007)
Liz Collini lives and works in East London, UK.
“We live in a world saturated with written language. Sometimes we need to slow reading and writing down and to edit language to its essentials. The written word is often provisional; that which it represents is absent, elsewhere, deferred in space and time. I see most of the surfaces I work on as forms of pages, and am constantly trying to create a ‘perfect text.”
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