Jill Randall

Printmaking is an important aspect of Jill Randall’s sculpture practice, used as a means of testing and exploring ideas, often using power tools and repeated sculptural processes to create prints, frequently pushing the boundaries and conventions of the medium. She explores the edge of what is possible ,frequently falling just short of obliteration and destruction, and often pairing disparate images to create new associations. The recording of the action of the hand on the plate, the expressive gestures used to create a mark are important. Rubbing out, drilling, gouging, exploring the fine line between creation and destruction, are all characteristics of her processes.
Jill Randall often creates multi-layered prints combining several different print methods. She likes the alchemy of printmaking-the transformational processes and traditional materials of the medium-beeswax, straw hat varnish, aquatint resin. Subject-matter has parallels with her sculpture practice, and explores natural and extraordinary phenomena in landscapes and the environment, mining sites, mapping and hidden or invisible places such as the ocean floor or abandoned mine workings. She works with unconventional, often abject subject matter such as sinkholes, fatbergs and new volcanic islands.

Photography: Dave Bennett.