Animals without backbones

“Animals without backbones"

Image by Lois Waters, Pleat 1, etching ink on kozo paper on board

Artist/s

Lois Waters

Artist/s statement

Lois Waters moves between drawing, printmaking and weaving to understand materials and their interactions. Her work considers the unique ability of the printed image to function as a surface, an object or a simulation of both.

Animals without backbones compares the logic of the invertebrate and the logic of the print the first defined in relation to an absent spine, the second an absent printing matrix to explore the strangeness of defining something by what it lacks. A selection of monoprints and textile works reflect on the artist's experience of hearing loss, and archive experiences in a body that resists being determined by deficit. Weaving, pleating and pixelation are used to reshape images and materials into new structures. These forms are not present as objects in themselves, but are instead used as plates in an expanded printmaking practice. In the absence of their matrices and reference materials these imprints take on new resonance; somewhere between object, surface and simulation.

• Opening Night, Wednesday 19 July 6pm - 8pm
  
  
• Opening:
  Friday 21 July 11am to 4pm
  Saturday 22 July 11am to 4pm
  Sunday 23 July 11am to 4pm
  Friday 28 July 11am to 4pm
  Saturday 29 July 11am to 4pm
  Sunday 30 July 11am to 4pm
  Friday 4 August 11am to 4pm
  Saturday 5 August 11am to 4pm
  
  
• Closing Celebration
  Sunday 6 August 11am to 4pm
  
  
• Instagram: @likeabridgeoverloiswaters
• Website: https://cargocollective.com/loisawaters/