Jaime Emily Powell - APW/JNHAT Lithography Scholarship recipient 2018

“I am interested in using printmaking in a spatial practice, using prints to investigate scale, pattern and tessellation. In large scale installations, organic imagery is created by aligning simple geometries or patterns by arranging multiple prints. The result is a body of work with multiple variations. Non Place is an iteration created with much gratitude through the James Northfield Lithographic Scholarship 2018 at the Australian Print Workshop.” Jaime Emily Powell.

Powell's work involves the presentation of mark making as installation. She is interested in the mark, the individual trace that we create by movement. Her mark making comes mainly from two things, an interest in language and an envy of fluent drawing skills. She uses Lithography as a tool to record these unique marks including the clumsy twitches and jerks that are part of the drawing process, allowing her to make something intangible tangible. In the layering of these symbols and signs over and over, their original meaning is distorted and a new meaning is created through the excess of visual information. Powell graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2011 and in 2012 interned at Singapore Tyler Print Institute. There she became captivated by methods of printmaking, in particular lithography. In 2014 she attended a summer at the Tamarind Institute of Lithography, New Mexico, USA. As a printer she has assisted artists Graham Fransella, Sarah McConnell, Cheralyn Lim and Terry Matassoni, and worked at Hipcat Printery, The Ownership Project, Negative Press and Viridian Press. She is part of the artist book collective 5 Press. Powell has exhibited at Volume Fair, Artspace and NGV Art Book Fair and her work has been collected by the State Library of Victoria, Bibliotheca Librorum apud Artificem and Lenton Parr Library, VCA. Jaime was Born in Hyderabad, India. She lives and works in Melbourne, Australia.