Andrea G Artz is a multimedia artist and photographer whose practice explores humanity’s relationship with the natural world and the cyclical processes of creation, destruction, and regeneration. Working across installation, photography, printmaking, sculpture, drawing, digital video, and immersive environments including Virtual Reality, Artz creates works that move between the physical and digital realms.
A central strand of her practice is her series of Japanese Woodcut Prints, in which digital imaginaries are transformed into tangible, hand-crafted objects. Working within her digitally constructed worlds, Artz photographs them as she would a physical environment, carefully considering angle, framing, perspective, light, and composition. She then translates these digital photographs into Japanese woodcut prints on Awagami Murakumo Kozo paper. Carving the imagery into woodblocks, she employs the traditional Japanese water-based woodcut technique, Mokuhanga, to build transparent layers of colour, delicate bokashi gradients, and richly textured woodgrain surfaces.
Her recent body of work, Lost in Nebulous Time, extends this process into the sculptural realm. Folded Japanese woodcuts are assembled into three-dimensional works and presented within box frames, where the exceptional strength and flexibility of Japanese paper allows printed images to become spatial forms. Silhouettes and negative cut-outs derived from screenshots of her digital environments interact with folded elements, creating shifting spatial relationships that are activated by light and shadow. The resulting works occupy an intriguing space between image, object, architecture, and digital landscape.
Artz completed her MFA at the University of Leeds in 2009 and holds a BA from CUNY/Hunter College, New York. She also trained as a photographer at the Bavarian Academy for Photography in Munich. Her recent awards and grants include an a-n bursary (2022), an Arts Council England Lottery grant (2021), a MacDowell Fellowship (2018), a Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP) ACE grant (2018), and an Ecce grant (2017).
Recent and forthcoming solo exhibitions include The Stone Space, London (2027), Project Divfuse, London (2025), Neuland Projekt Raum, Bochum (2021), Coleman Project Space, London (2021), Foyer Gallery, University of Leeds (2020), and Rottstr5 Kunsthallen, Bochum, Germany (2017).
Her work has also been exhibited internationally in group exhibitions and art fairs including APT Gallery, Yes Art, Imprint Art Fair, Festival of Print, Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, International Original Print Exhibition, Juried International Mokuhanga Exhibition, Blueshift Gallery/Radiance VR, Format Festival, Towner Eastbourne, Thameside Gallery, and the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
Artz’s work is held in collections including the Museum of London, Charles Dickens Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum Kunst & Gewerbe Hamburg, and private collections.
