Bina Shah

BINA SHAH Bina Shah is a London based visual artist and printmaker. Her work is site-responsive, deep rooted in both urban and rural environments. She makes her own botanical inks to stain papers and often incorporates earth pigments gathered from the location to make her own printing inks. Her work evolves from experimenting with different materials and combining printmaking techniques that often lead her to unexpected discoveries. She has created a series of multiplate woodcut prints and her recent series of monotypes were also printed on Japanese Washi papers, inspired by a visit to Valentia Island Slate Quarry and created during a print residency at Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland. She used discarded, weathered slate roof tiles and gathered slate dust and clay from the quarry to make the series Scláta, Celtic word for slate. She has exhibited widely and received numerous awards for printmaking including: Winner of London Centre of Book Arts [LCBA] at East London Printmakers Festival of Print 2023 Excellence in Printmaking Prize ELPS at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2021, Shortlisted for the Boodle Hatfield Print Prize 2020 Woolwich Contemporary Prize at the annual National Original Print Exhibition 2019.