Monique Prinsloo

(b 1984, South Africa. Lives and works in Cape Town)

Since 2017; Prinsloo has steadily been exploring printmaking as her medium of choice; following years of a predominantly photographic practice. These particular monotypes are experiments as a result of lockdown; and she has been continuing and extending the series whilst considering some larger format prints. The portraits and figures that transpire from her monotypes arise as a result from a poetic meditation on the human form. As a result; she has been exploring the relationship between the abstraction of the human form she is presenting on paper; and what the viewer's eye believes it is seeing. Interested in the spontaneous act of swift mark-making processes and their outcome; Prinsloo remarks; I admire the viewer's interpretation of these gestures transferred to paper. It leaves room for contemplation and the viewer's imagination to enter a parallel poetic meditative space that in turn emphasises my own.