Michelle Keegan
Michelle is fascinated by Printmaking; she lives for it and has never ceased to be excited and amazed by its magic and alchemy. The nature of printmaking demands clarity of thought, precision, and reflection throughout the making process.
Michelle describes her artistic practice as a way in which to conduct conversations with landscape and reflect on notions of belonging, identity, rootedness, liminality, and ‘home’. The work explores the dynamics and ambiguities of relationships, therefore exposing private ways of seeing and that of wider public discourse. The results are intricate and complex multi-layered prints that resist literal interpretation and lack referential scale. Honouring instead a physically charged and deeply personal mapping of the environment.
Michelle is Senior Lecturer in Printmaking at the University of Northampton.