"I was invited to create a print edition with EP as part of their RSA: New Contemporaries award in 2020. The image came about from conversations held online and in person with EP’s screenprinting technician Anupa Gardner over the year and a half since the start of the pandemic. Anupa’s insight and guidance were invaluable in helping me find the way to translate the soft, water-colour quality of my paintings into a different medium.  

The figure in this print is hard to grasp. Like most of my subjects, it is ghostly and uncertain. When considering its companion images, the moods and feelings it carries inside, we thought of – something queasy on a hot and sunny day – cave paintings – a spirit wandering in ruins – some sad thing glimpsed through the mist. " Zuzana Ullmannová

Biography

Zuzana Ullmannová is a Czech artist living in Edinburgh. She graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2019. Working on unprimed fabric, she uses thin, watered down paint to create blurry, distorted images. The work often starts as figurative and moves towards abstraction in the making - it is primarily process driven. She is interested in memory, belonging, dreams and desire; their messiness, inexactitude and the strange ways we record these experiences.