Vitoria Bas

After graduating from Central Saint Martins in Graphic Design with a specialisation in Illustration, Vitoria Bas started working as a print technician at the same university where she continued to explore print as a language. She immediately connected with screenprint and Risograph, and how they can lend themselves both to print production and printmaking. Vitoria’s practice now lies exactly between these two mediums.

As a printmaker, Vitoria is very craft-directed and inspired by ephemera and the mundane. Or, as she describes in less pompous words; “I like knick-knacks. I like train tickets with a nice type and food packaging mascots with silly little faces. I like the understated, but carefully considered and executed way these things are produced and I love using printmaking to try to emulate it.”

Vitoria appreciates things that are not timeless, and enjoys the insight that they give us into a certain place and time. Thus, she has no problem creating things with an expiry date for their relevance, like holiday cards, posters for artists and musicians, or small things that mark the here and now.

Lockdown has deeply affected the way Vitoria’s understands her work, career, and art. She tells us; “I am much more comfortable now making things for myself, setting my own standards, and accepting a slower pace for projects. I am happy to continue like this and curious to see where it takes me.”

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