Liz Clark is a printmaking
artist based in Suffolk. Her formal training includes a degree
from Winchester School of Art, a postgraduate diploma from
Goldsmiths College, a printmaking certificate from the London
College of Printing and most recently, an MA in printmaking
from Camberwell College of Arts.
Having originally trained as a textile designer, from the
mid to late 1970s onwards, she worked in the fashion industry
for a number of years. Her work as a textile designer took
her to many different parts of the world and towards the end
of her time in design employment, Liz undertook a consultancy
in South Africa to initiate design and product development
with women's textile groups in various parts of the country.
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Over a period of time her
work changed from textile design to being an artist working
with textiles. Her work occupies that uncommon terrain that
lies between craft and fine art. Whilst the use of textiles
remains an important factor in her practice, in recent years
the work has taken a different direction by increasingly incorporating
elements of printmaking, stimulated by and resulting from
periods
of study at London College of Printing and Camberwell College
of Arts where she graduated in 2001.
As a textile designer her work revolved around the structure
of the grid - the interweaving of the warp and the weft -
and even in her printmaking the grid remains a dominant feature,
often appearing
as an embossed surface and always determining the composition
of the print. |
