Rona Green (born 1972,

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) is an Australian visual artist.

Work

Green is best known for her figurative printmaking, painting, drawing and soft sculptures, which she refers to as

poppet In folk magic and witchcraft, a poppet (also known as poppit, moppet, mommet or pippy) is a doll made to represent a person, for casting spells on that person or to aid that person through magic. They are occasionally found lodged in chimneys. T ...

s, depicting human-animal hybrids.Description of art by Rona Green: * * * * The artist's area of specialty is printmaking and she has utilised various techniques such as

monotype Monotyping is a type of printmaking made by drawing or painting on a smooth, non-absorbent surface. The surface, or matrix (printing), matrix, was historically a copper etching plate, but in contemporary work it can vary from zinc or glass to ac ...

collograph Collagraphy (sometimes spelled collography) is a printmaking process introduced in 1955 by Glen Alps in which materials are applied to a rigid substrate (such as paperboard or wood). The word is derived from the Greek word ''koll'' or ''kolla'', m ...

linocut Linocut, also known as lino print, lino printing or linoleum art, is a printmaking technique, a variant of woodcut in which a sheet of linoleum (sometimes mounted on a wooden block) is used for a relief surface. A design is cut into the linoleum s ...

etching Etching is traditionally the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio (incised) in the metal. In modern manufacturing, other chemicals may be used on other types ...

lithography Lithography () is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by the German a ...

screenprint Screen printing is a printing technique where a mesh is used to transfer ink (or dye) onto a substrate, except in areas made impermeable to the ink by a blocking stencil. A blade or squeegee is moved across the screen to fill the open mesh ...

woodcut Woodcut is a relief printing technique in printmaking. An artist carves an image into the surface of a block of wood—typically with gouges—leaving the printing parts level with the surface while removing the non-printing parts. Areas that ...

wood engraving Wood engraving is a printmaking technique, in which an artist works an image or ''matrix'' of images into a block of wood. Functionally a variety of woodcut, it uses relief printing, where the artist applies ink to the face of the block and ...

and

digital printing Digital printing is a method of printing from a digital-based image directly to a variety of media. It usually refers to professional printing where small-run jobs from desktop publishing and other digital sources are printed using large-format ...

. Green's favoured medium is hand coloured linocut prints. * * * * * * * Transformation is a recurrent theme in Green's art. Her pictures of

anthropomorphic Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human traits, emotions, or intentions to non-human entities. It is considered to be an innate tendency of human psychology. Personification is the related attribution of human form and characteristics t ...

figures with decorated bodies celebrate individuals' ability to create identity, adopt alter egos and embrace otherness. She champions misfits, outcasts and outsiders - those on the fringe of society. Humour is also an integral part of Green's work.

Education

Green studied

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in the early 1990s. It was at university, under the influential tutelage of Peter Jacobs and John Robinson, that Green decided to major in printmaking. Green studied visual art at

Victorian College of the Arts The Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) is the arts school at the University of Melbourne in Australia. It is part of the university's Faculty of Fine Arts and Music. It is located near the Melbourne city centre on the Southbank campus of the ...

in the late 1990s, and she was awarded a Master of Fine Art degree from

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in 2012.

Exhibitions

Green has exhibited extensively since 1994, in Australia and internationally. In 201
Deakin University Art Gallery
held a survey exhibition of her printmaking and soft sculpture, titled ''Rona Green: Prints and Poppets 2000-2010,'' and during 2017-2018 ''Rona Green: Champagne taste and lemonade pockets'', a survey show reviewing ten years of Green's printmaking, toured

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and Benalla Art Gallery.

Awards

Green has been the recipient of several awards for her printmaking including the Geelong Print Prize in 2003, Swan Hill Print Acquisitive Award in 2004 and the Silk Cut Award for Linocut Prints Grand Prize in 2006.

Collections

Green's work is held in numerous private and public art collections including the

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The Print Council of Australia
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Artbank

References

External links

ronagreen.com
artist's website *
Rona Green - A Portrait in Ink
documentary (dir
Kate Logan
2014)
Rona Green's artworks in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia

Rona Green at Australian Galleries
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