On Dreaming
Exhibition at Northern Print : 10 May - 05 July 2025
Viewing Event : Thursday 22 May 6-8pm
This exhibition presents works made by Maura Hawkes, Yuliia Syrenkova and Grace Sharp - who have recently completed a bursary at Northern Print. The exhibition explores themes of place, memory and dreams.
The bursaries, funded by Idlewild Trust, allowed the artists to spend time in the studio over the last 12 months experimenting with printmaking, learning new processes as well as developing and sharing ideas about print
Maura Hawkes
Maura Hawkes is an artist based in Newcastle Upon Tyne. This series of work reflects on time spent in the Rainforest in Central America through woodblock printing and collage, and uses plant based Indigo and Weld pigments.
Maura’s art practice focuses on using sustainable and natural materials, often assembling multiple elements from one place within an art piece, leading to her work having a deep connection to the land it’s from.
Yuliia Syrenkova
Yuliia is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist from Ukraine (based in Newcastle), working across film, photography, drawing, and printmaking.
Yuliia combines printing techniques, organic processes, and materials to convey the idea of nostalgia and the connection between “place” and “memory”. She aims to explore collective trauma, how it’s inherited across generations, and its personal impact nowadays.
The presented work, created during the bursary, is the result of experiments with post-printing techniques such as toning and drawing, and exploration of new alternative ways of photo printing — lithography.
Grace Sharp
Grace Sharp is an artist from Newcastle Upon Tyne, currently working in a variety of media including intaglio printmaking. She centrally muses upon ideas of the memory image; the image created in the mind’s eye, enveloped by the tonality of the passing of time. In her etching works these themes are explored by beginning with ‘real’ objects of interest, arranging them into a sculptural form in a still life image, the image is transferred onto an etching plate, where it then goes through a series of states, making strange an otherwise ordinary object.