Edie Woolf

Edie Woolf is a Bristol based illustrator, comic artist, and printmaker who creates introspective comics and animations that promote themes of self-exploration, kindness, positivity, and anti-hustle culture vibes. She also regularly releases new clothing lines and art prints with these same themes.

Edie graduated from UWE with a degree in Illustration back in 2018. For the first 4 years following her graduation she worked professionally as a screen printer. Since leaving the job to focus on her illustration career, she has utilised her printmaking skills to release her own clothing lines and print her work to sell online and at fairs. Printing from a basis at Spike Island Print Studio, she creates with the priority of using sweatshop-free, fairly traded clothing, and eco-friendly, and water based screen printing techniques.

In 2022 Edie self-published her debut full-length graphic novel, Adrift, which has been described as “Scott Pilgrim if it was lesbians playing water polo”. She has also self-published many smaller comics and zines, including Not Quite Almost 10 Years which was reviewed positively by Broken Frontier. Last year Edie held a joint exhibition with her friend Sophia Checkley. Look Mom I’m An Artist displayed some of her comics using experimental printmaking.

“All of my work is based on my own feelings and experiences, like sharing my diary to the world, it’s very cathartic and helps me process things. I want to convey these emotions in a way that other people can relate to, and hopefully feel their own catharsis too.”

The comic My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness was a catalyst that encouraged Edie to share the deep truth of her experiences, and “to try new and scary things because if they don’t work out, at least I can write a comic about them”. She grew up watching anime and its influence on her work is undeniable. Last year, Edie partook in a 3 month artist residency with Studio Kura in Itoshima, Japan, and was deeply inspired by the landscape and her experiences living there. The residency culminated in a Riso-printed, hand-bound travel diary which she has now exhibited twice, first in Itoshima, and again back home in Bristol.

Currently, Edie is working on a rhythm game for an indie console called the Playdate, as well as preparing to release a new webcomic, Sea Nettle Beach, which is based on her longlisted pitch for the Self Made Hero First Graphic Novel Prize. This year, she hopes to further explore Risograph printing, with the aim of one day having a machine of her own.

www.ediewoolfillustration.co.uk
@edie.woolf

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