Liz Caffin
Printmaker
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Liz Caffin is an
Australian printmaker whose work evokes scenes that are elusive and
dreamlike, giving
shape to fragmentary memories. Figures take flight and journey through
landscape or architectural vistas. Dark shadows hide in doorways and
destinations.
In a series of prints set in Venice the echidna person becomes ‘il foresto’ - the foreigner or visitor. Caffin’s Italian works are symbolic of the dilemma facing the Australian artist whose cultural heritage is European, but who lives a great distance from the rich repositories of art in Europe. It is not that Caffin simply desires to be closer to our European heritage. Work such as the Tangling series immerses the viewer in an environment that is primeval and untamed. In these prints Caffin uses her understanding of natural forms found in the Australian landscape and melds this with the influences of the Renaissance painters, in particular the use of chiaroscuro (light and dark). Caffin’s work is both European as well as Australian – just as the artist is a product of both. |
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