G. W. Bot

Also known as Christine Grishin, Chrissy Grishin
  • Artist (Printmaker)
G.W. Bot is the pseudonymous name of a Canberra-based printmaker whose works are held in several major public collections including the National Gallery of Australia and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.

printmaker, works in Canberra. Married to art writer and academic Sasha Grishin.

Works tend to be either extremely intricate, somewhat Persian looking or very simple and severe, e.g. Lake George prints. Former include Washing [woman washing] 1996, linocut, Highly Commended in 1996 Silk Cut Acquisitive Award for Linocut Prints, Moorabbin, Vic. 1996. Others include Blue Poet , 1997, linocut and chine colle, from the exhibition Paper Garden at Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney, 1998, reproduced on cover of Canberra Arts Anthology , 1999 (insert in NLA News , November 1999) and the oriental-looking Entrance 2000 (Variation XXVIII), lincut on tapa cloth in ad. for Barry Stern Gallery in Art & Australia 38/4 (2001) prelims.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007