My artistic practice is driven by an interest in the intricate web of connections that exist between human beings. While printmaking is my primary medium, I also employ other forms of expression to investigate human connection. Through working with processes and a range of mediums, I seek to make visible invisible threads that bind us together.
I'm interested in concepts developed through iterative processes in printmaking and other media: the relationship of dualities and their ambiguity, stability and change.
On printmaking
In releasing the expectation of an exact copy, I use the printmaking matrix in ways that generate infinitely variable outcomes. Treating matrices as the DNA of the work—and adopting studio methods that echo the interplay of nature and nurture—I explore the provisionality of the self.
The world is encountered in fragments: what I see and experience is always shifting, and in turn, it shifts me. This ongoing exchange compels an understanding of the self as a provisional and fragile construction. Embracing chance and the unforeseen, I recognise that we move through an open field of possibilities rather than along a predetermined path; the world reveals itself as a process rather than a product.
In the studio, unstable matrices, iterative series, and the continual cycles of layering, erasing, making and unmaking, arranging and re-arranging become enactments of this inquiry. Through these processes, I chart how, as an artist, I make sense of myself and the world around me.
Monique Bosshard Curby is a visual artist based in Perth, Western Australia. With a diverse exploration across various artistic media, Bosshard Curby has focused over the past decade extensively on printmaking.
Monique Bosshard Curby holds a degree in Visual Arts and Art Education from the School of Art and Design Bern and the University of Bern, Switzerland. Furthering her commitment to artistic inquiry, she holds a Master of Arts (by Research) from the University of Notre Dame Australia. She has shown her work in a number of group and solo shows, predominantly in printmaking, for example, the Fremantle Art Centre Print Award, and has received awards like the PAWA Print Award and the City of Bayswater Art Award. Her work is held in collections in Switzerland and Australia, including Holmes à Court and North Metropolitan TAFE.
I'm interested in concepts developed through iterative processes in printmaking and other media: the relationship of dualities and their ambiguity, stability and change.
On printmaking
In releasing the expectation of an exact copy, I use the printmaking matrix in ways that generate infinitely variable outcomes. Treating matrices as the DNA of the work—and adopting studio methods that echo the interplay of nature and nurture—I explore the provisionality of the self.
The world is encountered in fragments: what I see and experience is always shifting, and in turn, it shifts me. This ongoing exchange compels an understanding of the self as a provisional and fragile construction. Embracing chance and the unforeseen, I recognise that we move through an open field of possibilities rather than along a predetermined path; the world reveals itself as a process rather than a product.
In the studio, unstable matrices, iterative series, and the continual cycles of layering, erasing, making and unmaking, arranging and re-arranging become enactments of this inquiry. Through these processes, I chart how, as an artist, I make sense of myself and the world around me.
Monique Bosshard Curby is a visual artist based in Perth, Western Australia. With a diverse exploration across various artistic media, Bosshard Curby has focused over the past decade extensively on printmaking.
Monique Bosshard Curby holds a degree in Visual Arts and Art Education from the School of Art and Design Bern and the University of Bern, Switzerland. Furthering her commitment to artistic inquiry, she holds a Master of Arts (by Research) from the University of Notre Dame Australia. She has shown her work in a number of group and solo shows, predominantly in printmaking, for example, the Fremantle Art Centre Print Award, and has received awards like the PAWA Print Award and the City of Bayswater Art Award. Her work is held in collections in Switzerland and Australia, including Holmes à Court and North Metropolitan TAFE.
