Luiza Holub
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Luiza Holub is an artist, printmaker and illustrator. She was born in Poland and completed an MA in Contemporary Fine Art in 2010. She is currently based in Sheffield.
Her practice focuses on the handmade process and she works primarily with linocut and mono print printmaking techniques, creating work that is contemporary with a nod to the traditional. An urgency and momentary impulse to get an idea out onto paper means the initial stages of her drawings are spontaneous and fast. This spontaneity provides a simple, strong line in her work which remains unrefined and can be seen as a negative white line in her prints. She creates work that is expressive but calm, carefully constructed and yet the handprinted results are always unexpected. Surface texture and misaligned happy accidents are embraced, celebrated and give an originality to her work that can only come from the unpredictable and wonderful nature of printmaking.
Her prints exhibit a fascination with common objects, everyday life and the human body. They are shown with bold colour and simple compositions that show the admiration for the familiar.
