Christine Sloman

Since joining Edinburgh Printmakers in 2013 Christine has been gradually rebuilding her art practice, drawing on the deep seated love of printmaking she discovered as a student at the London College of Printing (UAL). She studied book arts and paper conservation and then completed a four year traineeship in the conservation studios of the British Library. She has always made prints and artist books in tandem with her conservation work. However, for many years her art practice was virtually dormant due to the demands of a complicated family life.

Christine’s prints and artist books are based upon our relationship to memory, place and the passage of time.

Working in monotype, she builds images from multiple layers of ink, often applying them in spontaneous, experimental ways. With monotype there is unlimited scope for texture and mark- making and finding new ways of expression is a large part of her practice.

However, in the last while, partly as a way of addressing Covid, and partly in reaction to the trauma of losing her daughter Anna in 2021 she has changed direction, piecing together fragments of her monotypes - both old and new - into collages. It has been one way of dealing with painful times; a process of editing and reassembling. It is also a play on memory and how it can change according to context.

Christine became a professional member of the Society of Scottish Artists in 2020 and is part of the artist book collective Bound:unBound. She has work in the collections of The British Library, The National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh College of Art and Edinburgh Printmakers

www.christinesloman.com

www.boundunbound.org.uk