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#animals
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“Knit Picker.” All photos © Strangford, shared with permission
Animal hijinks and playful puns fill the colourful prints of County Down-based artist Jo, often known as Strangford. Whippets in knits, bagel-scarfing badgers, and roly-poly felines are just some of the characters that emerge from lino-cuts and Risographs. “The primary floor I’m carving into is flooring lino—it is available in larger items than artist lino—and plywood, although I’m a newbie at wooden carving,” she tells Colossal. “I earn a living from home. I’ve mainly taken over the entire home now.”
With a background in ecology, Strangford found printmaking when she joined native Extinction Rebellion teams, decentralized initiatives designed to influence governments to behave on the local weather emergency. “I had beforehand accomplished a little bit of digital work however fell in love with the method of carving and printing,” she says. Through the pandemic, her work took on a extra humorous and light-hearted high quality. “When the world bought extra critical, my work turned extra playful.”
A solo exhibition of Strangford’s work opens tomorrow at The Workshop Ballynahinch and continues for 2 months. A number of prints can be found within the store on her website, and you’ll observe updates on Instagram.
“Gap Meals Food regimen”
“Foolish Billies”
“Some Gulls Are Greater Than Others”
“I’m Only a Paw Boy From a Paw Household”
“Semi-Snaked”
“Le Beak, C’est Stylish”
“Lengthy Otter”
“Ribbit For Her Pleasure”
#animals
#humor
#printmaking
#Strangford
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