Theadora Ballantyne-Way
Theadora is a multi-disciplinary artist specialising in print and video. She has recently completed her masters in print and has a studio at Estate of the Arts.
In much of her work mundane utensils become monumental industrial components, a transformation that elevates them into objects of aesthetic consideration and bizarre emblems of middle-class terror. Her enlargement of these objects are not a critique of consumer habits but a celebration of the surreal – a playful conceit on the rich history of the English pastoral.
Probing at our sense of perception, her use of the textures and antiquated processes of traditional printmaking, produces a false sense of legitimacy, one that is at odds with most contemporary image production.
Techniques
Screenprinting
Photo Etching
Polymer Photogravure
Qualifications
MA Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking
PGCE Art and Design
BA (Hons) Fine Art and History of Art and Architecture
Eton Fund Award
Black Swan Guild Prize
Gane Trust Award
Carter Memorial Prize, University of Reading
