Leah Kharibian
I feel great excitement at the intense contrast of lino prints -- the blackness gives me a particular thrill -- and how, through cutting, light is created so that figures, stories and worlds emerge from the dark. I have a fondness for historic popular printing and the disturbing edge that often comes with them. The Monde à Rebours or World Turned Upside Down prints of 18th- and 19th-century Europe are favourites of mine, with their unsettling role reversals. So too Posada prints and 15th- and 16th-century woodcuts.