Dee Sandom & Michelle Weedall - Marks and Presence, Marks of Place

Marks of Presence, Marks of Place brings together two contemporary printmakers whose practices, while distinct in process and subject, share a deep commitment to noticing — to the act of paying attention to the world as it is lived, walked, and witnessed. 

One artist works through the bold, graphic clarity of linocut, carving everyday objects, architectural details, maps, and traces of human movement into striking silhouettes. Their prints anchor the viewer in the physical world: boots that have travelled miles, a tiny house pressed between larger buildings, a dog poised on a familiar path. These works speak to belonging, locality, and the quiet stories held within the places we inhabit. 

The other artist works through the layered tactility of collagraph, the expressive immediacy of monoprint, and the fine‑line precision of etching. Birds recur as central figures — in flight, perched, or in watchful dialogue — rendered through textured plates, gestural colour, and atmospheric backgrounds. These prints explore presence in a different register: the intelligence, instinct, and emotional resonance of the natural world, captured in moments of movement and stillness. 

Together, the two practices form a conversation about how we locate ourselves — in landscape, in memory, in the company of other beings. Marks of Presence, Marks of Place invites viewers to move between grounded paths and open skies, between the human and the wild, between the carved and the layered. It is an exhibition about connection: to place, to nature, and to the marks we leave behind.