FALLING LIGHT 

Icaria is an ongoing printmaking series begun in 2023, exploring flight, endurance and transformation through the figure of a female Icarus.

Icaria is an ongoing body of work that reconsiders the myth of Icarus through a female figure who constructs her own wings and determines her own flight. Where the traditional myth culminates in hubris and collapse, Icaria proposes endurance, adaptation and self-directed motion. Flight is approached not as spectacle but as a sustained negotiation with gravity, balance and constraint.

Combining linocut, monotype, ink, paint and expressive mark making, the series brings together the body, wing, field and fragment as signs of movement, resistance and becoming.

Across the collection, winged figures move through layered abstract spaces of black, grey and deep red. Textures, marks and open areas of paper create a sense of suspension, as if the figures are caught between ascent and descent, presence and disappearance, vulnerability and strength. The repeated image of wings becomes a way to think about adaptation, self-determination and the work of continuing.

Rooted in contemporary printmaking, Icaria expands the myth of Icarus into a more open and embodied language. These works are not about a single moment of falling, but about the labour of flight itself: the making, carrying and testing of wings in uncertain conditions.

  • Abstract printmaking artwork with linocut winged figures, expressive black and red ink marks, layered textures and gestural mark making on a white ground.

    Between Heaven & Earth ll (2023)

    Monotype print with linocut & mixed media | Canson Edition 320gsm paper | 80 x 180cm

  • Abstract artwork featuring a pink stylized hand holding a spear, with prominent arrows and splashes of black and gray paint, on a textured white background with various shapes and patches.

    Falling Light (2023) One

    Monotype print with linocut and mixed media | Canson edition 320gsm paper | Edition Variable l/ll 80x60cm

  • A piece of street art featuring a red figure of a person holding an umbrella with leaves and branches, while a silhouette of a seated person appears below on a white wall.

    Falling Light (2023) Two

    Monotype print with linocut and mixed media | Canson edition 320gsm paper | Edition Variable ll/ll 80x56cm

  • Black and white abstract artwork of a person hanging sideways, with wings made of feathers on the person and holding strings attached to feathers.

    Above & Beyond (2023)

    Monotype print with linocut and mixed media | Canson Edition 320gsm paper | 80x60cm