Art of Roslyn Kean

Roslyn Kean is one of Australia’s most respected and admired printmakers. Whereas many artists of her generation were inspired by the modernist mythology of the rejection of tradition and proceeded to overthrow the prevailing norms in art, Kean in her art practice sought to embrace an ancient printmaking tradition and to give it new life within a contemporary context.

After initial art training in Sydney followed by further study at The Slade in London, it was while studying in Tokyo and already aged in her early thirties, that Kean was completely seduced by traditional Japanese woodblock printmaking – mokuhanga – and became deeply immersed in Japanese cultural traditions. Now, almost forty years later, Kean is an internationally recognised practitioner of mokuhanga and is revered by her peers as an outstanding print artist, an inspirational teacher and a sage.

When Kean developed her expertise in mokuhanga techniques and became deeply immersed in Japanese cultural traditions, she also brought with her a passion for geometry and colour into her art making.

AUTHOR:
Sasha Grishin AM, FAHA is an Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University in Canberra, who works internationally as an art historian, art critic and curator. He studied at the universities of Melbourne, Moscow, London and Oxford and has served several terms as visiting scholar at Harvard University. 

He has published over thirty books and over two thousand articles and catalogue essays dealing with various aspects of art.

ISBN: 9780947349738
Format: Hardcover | Pages: 204
Publication date: 01/05/2025
Dimension: 290mm X 280mm
Imprint: The Beagle Press