Ocean Mandala

Zoe Keramea explores enfolded surfaces using sculpture, printmaking, drawing and ceramics. She was born in Athens in 1955 and received a Meisterschülerin degree from the Universität der Künste Berlin in 1981. She was awarded a Fulbright Grant in 1989 to work on her printmaking project "Two Stage Intaglio Matrix Prints - Zoetypes" in New York. Zoetype is a printmaking process that involves the transfer of images from a worked metal plate (etching, aquatint, sugarlift etc.) on to the paper, via a woven cloth matrix, either directly or by retransfer on to a second metal plate. This process gives the print a much greater range of tonal and textural effect. The matrix can give a sharp relief with either its printed or unprinted side or the two maybe used in combination.