LAURA OWSIANKA

who was behind the makeover??

hand printed chromogenic prints from layering laser printed acetate negatives in the WetLab colour darkroom. everything is made in the dark, nothing is fixed until the paper exposed. experiments in reconfiguring, opacity and transparency, and seeing what happenssssss

Tyabb (There's A Bird On The Horses's Butt But You Can't Really See It)

dad in the varda cinema shack, portugal

shot end of 2023, handprinted chromogenic print made in the colour darkroom by me at WetLab

experiments with spectrolite, riso-photo with two and three colours

L: porto stairwell, sunflower and black ink, A4

R: fran in blue and violet, A6

matching energies

top: acknowledge, early 2023

bottom: teachers and school staff for palestine, september 2025

calm down room at the airport, children's library cafeteria

moving house, finding little paintings and drawings from the last year of living alone

l: 11 tram floor, gouache on cardboard from the cat food delivery

still waiting for a school closure text, drawing from 2020 when everything in melbourne was closing down and everyone was told to work at home but teachers were still being asked to teach in person

coloured pencil on chemical stained photographic paper i pulled out of the bin in our darkroom - a student had exposed it accidentally, not said anything, and tried to stash it

pages from a riso photo zine made with glom press

'duets' is A6, 16 page, three colour riso printed zine from 2024. it's hard to take a photo of because the colours are so vivid and confusing to my phone!

some of the images in this zine started as black and white 35mm and have been colourised, then distorted again through riso. experimenting with the spectrolite app!

some of the images started as colour 35mm

owsianka men at weddings