Enjoy your worries (2020) – hand-pulled screen print by Maaike Bakker

• 6-colour screen print on 100% archival paper (BFK Rives 250gsm)
• Paper size: 560x580mm
• Limited edition of 50
• Numbered and signed by the artist
• Hand-printed in South Africa
• Please note all prints are sold unframed

Maaike Bakker (b. 1986) is a master of both fine art and illustration, as well the overlap between the two traditionally distinct fields. Much of her fine art output is characterised by monochromatic compositions of geometric forms, parallel lines, arcs, twists and negative space, rendered in a range of mediums both traditional and not – from ink and acrylic to laser-cutting and digital printing on glass. These elements and the artworks themselves engage in an abstract dialogue exploring ideas around notations and systems, the tensions between perceived order and “aimless expressions”, the self-contained logic generated within an individual system, and consequently the limits of a system – the point at which it becomes pointless. Bakker’s illustrative work shares similar conceptual concerns, but is imbued with more levity, playfulness, eclecticism and colour. Her intentional pursuit of both disciplines in parallel has synergistically developed both, while creating an exciting creative liminal space.

Bakker has held number of solo and duo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions and residencies in Germany, India and South Africa. In addition to her artistic practice, she lectures illustration at the Open Window Institute and is co-curator of NO END Contemporary in partnership with Dalene Victor-Meyer and Jayne Crawshay-Hall.