Lizzie Horne
CREATIVE PRACTICE
printmaker, teacher, poet, children's writer, journalist, speechwriter and copywriter
ARTIST STATEMENT
I am inspired by what I see around me, my family and the simple beauty of nature and the landscape. I am also interested in exploring complex ideas about what it means to be human, our relationships with each other and the natural world. This can take my work in weird and wonderful directions, sometimes delightful, sometimes disturbing!
I am constantly seeking to refine and expand my practice with new techniques, mediums and ideas. Experimentation, chance and accidents play a significant role in this process of refinement, whereby any mistake that is repeatable can become a technique – if I understand how I did it I can use it again on purpose.
One way that I approach making is working en plein air in front of whatever subject I am drawing, making marks on a metal plate right there within the natural environment. I love the immediacy of these marks, which convey energy and mood rather than realistic accuracy. My series of Point Lookout landscapes entitled “The Edge (Wright country, New England National Park)” are an example of this creative process.
My studio practice is more deliberate, often involving research and repetition to allow me to develop ideas more deeply. I am currently expanding on the work begun for my solo show at the New England Regional Art Gallery in 2020, The Uncivilised Garden. The key motif is the santos cage doll, of the type used since Medieval times in religious parades and ceremonies. For me these dolls reflect the dark side of our society, the consequences of corruption, greed and apathy. “Crime scene” and “Rose” are examples of these ideas in my work.
BIO
Predominantly a printmaker working in intaglio and relief, Lizzie Horne was born in Tasmania and currently lives in the NSW university town of Armidale.
She held her first major solo show The uncivilized garden at the New England Regional Art Museum in February/March 2020, and has recently participated in her first international exhibition at the Athens Printmaking Centre in Greece.
She has exhibited her work in group exhibitions at galleries in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland, including Carriageworks, Sydney, NERAM, the Brisbane Institute of Art, the Tanks Art Centre, Cairns and the Queenscliff Gallery & Workshop.
She has been shortlisted for the 2020 Swan Hill Print & Drawing Award, 2019 Peeble’s Print Prize, the 2018 Stanthorpe Art Prize, and has had works selected for Inkmasters Print Exhibitions in 2018 and 2016. She has also been short-listed for the Milburn Art Prize and has won the portrait section of the Armidale Art Prize. In 2017 she was the inaugural winner of the Helen Dangar Memorial Art Bursary administered by NERAM.
Lizzie teaches sessional printmaking at the Museum of Printing at NERAM, as well as running workshops in her fully-equipped home studio.
She is also a published children’s writer and author of Kangaroos in my blood and other poems (Douglas & Brown 2017) and holds a Bachelor of Languages.
EXHIBITIONS
Black Gully Printmakers, Weswal Gallery, Tamworth, NSW
Swan Hill Print & Drawing Prize, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
Herbarium, Athens Printmaking Centre, Greece
The Uncivilised Garden (solo), New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, NSW
Wonderment Queenscliff Gallery & Workshop, Victoria
2019 Peeble’s Print Prize, Queescliff Gallery & Workshop, Victoria
This Country (solo), Anna & Co Gallery, Uralla
New England Print Prize, Armidale Art Gallery
Between the lines, Black Gully Printmakers inspired by Judith Wright, NERAM
Material Thinking, NERAM, Armidale
2018 Sydney Contemporary Paper, Carriageworks, Sydney
Inkmasters 2018 Exhibition Tanks Art Centre, Cairns
2018 Stanthorpe Art Prize Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery, Queensland
Birds The Uralla Print Gallery
Artists’ books & bookplates The Uralla Print Gallery
Stereotypes Black Gully Printmakers at the Museum of Printing
Kangaroos in my blood New England Regional Art Museum
Luminous Land Black Gully printmakers at the Museum of Printing
Blossoms The Uralla Print Gallery
Inkmasters 2016 Print Exhibition Tanks Arts Centre, Cairns
Black & white The Uralla Print Gallery
If you go into the woods New England Regional Art Museum
Go Figure! Armidale Art Gallery, Armidale
Impressions 8 Impress Printmakers GalleryKedron subARTstation, Brisbane
Milburn Art Prize Brisbane Institute of Art, Brisbane
Flowers Wild (solo) Chaucer on Bridge St Gallery, Uralla
10 Printmakers Gallery 126, Armidale
