Prudence Ainslie
About the Artist
Prudence Ainslie is primarily a printmaker. She documents places with the intention of re-analysing the act of seeing. For her the viewing experience is absorbed through process and the re-working of multiple media – By folding, layering, and abstracting to create subtle illusions and construct tangible worlds that allude to the original space. There is an interrogation of the fluctuation between the reading of the two-dimensional and three-dimensional.
Her images often bring together the traditional 20th century woodcut and contemporary digital printing methods, exploiting the subtle layering of contrasting print media.
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Artworks
Prudence Ainslie
arch - between.
Date: 2020
Medium: Archival digital and woodcut print
Size: 33 x 28 cm
Prudence Ainslie
arch -across..
Date: 2020
Medium: Archival pigment and woodcut print
Size: 20 x 20 cm (7.87 x 7.87 ins)
Edition 25
Prudence Ainslie
Compressive Force - Up
Date: 2020
Medium: Woodcut and archival digital
Size: 28 x 39 cm (11.02 x 15.35 ins)
Printed on Hosho 90gsm.
Image size: 22.5 x 33.5cm.
Edition 25.
Prudence Ainslie
Compressive Force – Down
Date: 2020
Medium: Archival digital and woodcut print
Size: 28 x 39 cm (11.02 x 15.35 ins)
Edition 25
Prudence Ainslie
Descent.
Date: 2019
Medium: Archival pigment and woodcut print
Size: 25 x 28 cm
Prudence Ainslie
Finestra - in (red).
Date: 2016
Medium: Digital, woodcut and chine colle print
Size: 41 x 37.8 cms
Prudence Ainslie
Finestra - out (Blue).
Date: 2016
Medium: Digital, woodcut and chine colle print
Size: 41 x 37.8 cms
Prudence Ainslie
IRORI - SHINRIN (sunken hearth - forest)
Date: 2022
Medium: Japanese Woodblock
Size: 32 x 26 cms (12.60 x 10.24 ins)
Nishinouchchi - natural 60gsm
Size of blocks: 20.7cm x 16.8cm
Prudence Ainslie
IRORI - SORA (sunken hearth - sky)
Date: 2022
Medium: Japanese Woodblock
Size: 32 x 26 cms (12.60 x 10.24 ins)
Nishinouchchi - natural 60gsm
Size of blocks: 20.7cm x 16.8cm
Prudence Ainslie
Palazzo.
Date: 2016
Medium: Digital, woodcut and chine colle print
Size: 32.5 x 36 cm
Prudence Ainslie
Semblance
Date: 2021
Medium: Archival digital and woodcut print
Size: 33 x 46 cms (12.99 x 18.11 ins)
Edition 25
In 'Semblance' dissolving woodcut veils subside to reveal maze-like architectural spaces. Framed by the fabricated walls of the structure, cloudscape vistas break through from the other side.
Prudence Ainslie
Titian's Garden I.
Date: 2016
Medium: Digital, woodcut and chine colle print
Size: 32.5 x 36 cm
Prudence Ainslie
Titian’s Garden II.
Date: 2016
Medium: Digital, woodcut and chine colle print
Size: 32.5 x 36 cm
Prudence Ainslie
Ventana I (Green).
Date: 2018
Medium: Digital, woodcut and chine colle print
Size: 28.3 x 16.6 cm
Edition of 25
Selected for the RA Summer Exhibition 2018
Prudence Ainslie
Ventana II (Blue).
Date: 2018
Medium: Archival digital and woodcut print
Size: 28.3 x 16.6 cm
News
‘WHEN THE EAST WIND BLOWS’
Six encounters with Japanese Woodblock Printmaking
Prudence Ainslie, Sara Lee, Paul Furneaux RSA, Rebecca Salter PRA, Nana Shiomi and Katsutoshi Yuasa.
2 June – 28 August 2025
Embassy of Japan, 101-104 Piccadilly London W1J 7JT
“Each body of work I create is typically underpinned by the exploration of a new place—creating imagery that interprets the experience of being in an unfamiliar environment. So, it made sense that during the residency, I would be influenced by more than just the technique I was learning. During my time in Lake Kawaguchi, I was struck by the tranquillity of the landscape and wanted to capture the stillness it brought to my life at the time. In the IRORI series, I reimagine a traditional Japanese living space, creating enclosed environments where the area typically reserved for the hearth becomes a window into the outside world.” Prudence Ainslie
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Biography
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
When the East WInd Blows, Six encounters with Japanese Woodblock Printmaking
Prudence Ainslie, Sara Lee, Paul Furneaux RSA, Rebecca Salter PRA, Nana Shiomi and Katsutoshi Yuasa. Embassy of Japan, London. UK
2020
The Faraway Nearby. Rabley Gallery, Rabley Drawing Centre, UK
IFPDA Print Fair, NY, USA – Rabley Gallery
London Original Print Fair, UK – Rabley Gallery
2019
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
London Original Print Fair, Rabley Gallery, Royal Academy, London
2018
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
London Original Print Fair, Rabley Gallery, Royal Academy, London
2017-18
PAPER, Works on paper from the Swindon Museum and Gallery Collection.
2017
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
London Original Print Fair, Rabley Contemporary, Royal Academy, London
London Art Fair, Rabley Contemporary, Design Business Centre, London
2016
INK Miami, Rabley Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA
ISOLA – In Sight of Titian’s Garden and the Laguna Venetta, Rabley Gallery, UK
Surface Cutting, Royal Academy, London
London Original Print Fair, Rabley Contemporay, Royal Academy, London
London Art Fair, Rabley Contemporary, Design Business Centre, London
2015
INK Miami, Rabley Gallery, Miami, Florida
Multiplied Art Fair, Rabley Contemporary, Christies
National Original Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
London Original Print Fair, Rabley Gallery, Royal Academy, London
2014
INK Miami, Rabley Gallery, Miami, Florida
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
London Original Print Fair, Rabley Gallery, Royal Academy, London
2013
Multiplied Art Fair, Rabley Contemporary, Christies, London
Rabley Summer Exhibition, Rabley Contemporary, UK
2012
Interim Show, University of Brighton
2011
Everything all of the Time, Fisherman’s Gallery, Brighton
Inprint, Café Delice, Brighton
AWARDS
2020 Jerwood Printmaking Today Prize – Shortlist
RESIDENCIES
2022 MI-LAB Lake Kawaguchi Artist-in-Residence Mokuhanga training program, JAPAN
2015 Rabley Artist Residency in Venice, Palazzo Dalla Rosa, Venice.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK
Swindon Museum and Gallery Collection, Wiltshire, UK
Chichester University Otter Collection, UK
PUBLICATIONS
Rabley Gallery, FOLIO 22, 2022
EDUCATION
2022 – MI-LAB Lake Kawaguchi Artist-in-Residence Mokuhanga training program, JAPAN
2009 – 2012 University of Brighton, BA(Hons.) Fine Art Printmaking, First Class
2008 – 2009 Trowbridge College, Wiltshire UK, Art Foundation