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Christine Kerruish

Inspiration, creative practice

I grew up on a sheep and cattle farm in the Southern midlands of Tasmania. After a varied career in television and radio, I stumbled across print making by accident in 2000, when I enrolled to study painting at TAFE and accidentally enrolled in print making instead. I am now undertaking a BFA at the Tasmanian School of Art, majoring in print making and drawing.

I like to print on handmade Japanese and Thai rice papers, enjoying the translucency and ephemeral qualities they lend to my work. These papers also reflect my simple, direct style and offer a fitting vehicle to convey my foremost interest, which is the natural world around me.

More recently I have been working with inks, solvent transfers and graphite rubbed lino cuts. My recent prints and collages are inspired by the collages and prints of American artists Robert Rauschenberg and Kiki Smith.

I now live in a rambling farm house on the pristine south-east coast of Tasmania with my husband and three children, and a myriad of wayward animals.

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  Title: Bird in Hair
  Medium: Lino cut on Thai rice paper
  Size: 30cm(h) x 20cm(w)
  
  
  
  
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  Title: Lotus Flower
  Medium: Lino cut
  Size: 10cm x 10cm
  Number in edition: 10
  
  
  
  
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  Title: Blue
  Medium: Oilstick
  Size: 60cm x 90cm
  
  
  
  
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  Title: Untitled
  Medium: Transfer Drawing
  Size: 90cm x 120cm
  
  
  
  
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  Title: 'Chestnut Cottage' - Oatlands
  Medium: Transfer Drawing
  Size: 90cm x 60cm
  
  
  
  
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  Title: 'Little Crooked House' (detail)
  Medium: Transfer Drawing
  Size: 90cm x 60cm
  
  
  
  
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  Title: Angel
  Medium: Transfer Drawing
  Size: 40cm x 50cm