About Kitty Chan Furse
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Education
1993 - 1995
Royal College of Art
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Biography
In recent years I have rekindled my love for printmaking, setting up a home print studio and selling prints at various exhibitions. I especially love the versatility you can get with an intaglio press. One method I often use is to create monotypes. This entails the layering of card, cut stencils, the use of textured materials such as wood, feathers and wire and also drawing stencils with a scalpel. Inking up part of the plate or card and choosing from all of these components feels like I am orchestrating all the pieces that will transform into a finished one-off artwork as it goes through the press. The most exciting moment is seeing what appears as the paper emerges from the press and is lifted off the plate.
Printing onto fabric has enabled me to use stitch work which offers a different dimension and texture to the finished pieces. When I am not printmaking I also love to simply sketch and draw.
My idiosyncratic work is often autobiographical, dealing with family stories of life in China passed down by family members. I also like to try and portray and express scenarios and visual fragments that come from my dreams. I'm inspired by the oddities, personalities, situations and characters I observe around me.
