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A new site-specific commission has been installed as a permanent feature in in the Prints and Drawings Study Room at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London

EXHIBITIONS

The Word is a Map
Bainbridge Studios
London SE27 OAP
10th - 20th May
Part of the 2012 Dulwich Open

TRI Gallery
Tampere, Finland
30th March - 29th April

Lost For Words
UCH Gallery
University College Hospital
NW1 2BO
29th March - 2nd May

6th International Kyoto Hanga 2012
Kyoto City Museum
Kyoto, Japan
31st July - 12th August

I make different forms of texts using simple but often ambiguous words and phrases, mostly through printmaking and drawing. The written word holds many paradoxes, not least those of absence and presence. There are gaps and overlaps between reading and viewing, text and image, the hand and the machine. I try to create breathing spaces in which we can pause and look back at language. Whole narratives can be compressed into a single word or familiar phrase. The drawings' resemblance to plans and blueprints reflects the strange provisionality of written language; the things about which we write are always elsewhere. I work only with Times New Roman (the default font) and my own handwriting to minimise questions of typography.

In 2010 I co-curated with Ana Fonseca an exhibition of extended printmaking in Lisbon (...and then again...) featuring the work of 31 British-based and Portuguese artists whose work is inspired by print.

I live and work in London, where I have a studio. I am a member of East London Printmakers, an artists' collective based in Hackney.

Many of my prints are for sale.
Contact me at lizcollini@aol.com

2011 New Work	3 images
abandon	9 images
and then again	4 images
apples series	9 images
Bury 2009 (The Agency of Words)	5 images
Bury 2011 (Sentences)	6 images
Freud Museum 2011	4 images
Heart Of Glass (Concrete And Glass) Shoreditch 2008	2 images
Prints	9 images
Working Towards	7 images

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Exhibitions
A Map of You	Transport Museum, Bury, Lancs			30th April - 27th May
Dreams (East London Printmakers Group Show)	Freud Museum, Hampstead, London			3rd March - IIth April 2011
Liz Collini @ The Met	The Met Arts Centre, Market Street, Bury, Lancs	0161 761 2216	www.themet.biz	30th April - 28th May 2011
Sentences	Bury Art Gallery, Bury, Lancs			29th April - 9th July 2011
...and then again...	Pavilhao Preto, Museu da Cidade, Lisbon		www.andthenagain.net	22nd June - 5th Sept 2010
Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition				June - August 2010

Line Journeys	Collyer Bristow Gallery, London WC1R 4TF			10th Feb - 19th May 2010
Everything Must Belong	Luderdale House, Highgate, London			September 2009
Eleven; East London Printmakers` Annual Open	Bankside Gallery, London			30th June - 5th July
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2009	Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly, London (Joint Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects Award for Architectural Drawing)			June 2009
Northern Print Biennale	Hatton Gallery, Newcastle			July - August 2009
Good News	Alexandra Park Boating Lake			May 2009
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2009	Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly, London			June 2009
The Agency of Words	Bury Art Gallery and Museum			May - July 2009
Symmetry	Black Church, Temple bar, Dublin			February 2009
Working Towards - Solo Show	The Original Gallery, Hornsey Library			March 2009
Overlappings - solo show	Tricycle Gallery, London			2008
I am Ten	East London Printmakers, Bankside Gallery, London			2008
Tidy Art	Alexandra Palace Boating Lake, London			2008
Graduate Bursary	Cast Iron Workshops, Ironbridge Museum of Steel Sculpture			2008
ARTfutures	Contemporary Art Society, Bloomberg Space, London			2008
Hot Off The Press	Curwen and New Academy Galleries London			2008
Heart of Glass - Concrete and Glass	Shoreditch London			2008
Overlappings - Solo Show	Tricycle Gallery London			2008