The environmental influences of our communities, sculpt and shape who we are. Our identities have been imprinted, so to speak, by others. In a sense they light our paths, while we as individuals choose which ways to walk. How these influences affect us varies, and the nature of these changing influences means our identities are in flux. Eric C’s first solo show I’mprint, explores the way in which her experience of community revolves around craft, art making and feminist or female dominated spaces, on a local and global scale, and the connection to her family’s matriarchal influences. I’mprint visualises the collective nature of these spaces, as well as the idiosyncratic nature of individuals in a series of prints on fabric bags, acting as symbol for gift giving.

Eric C is an emerging visual artist based in Perth. Their practice explores notions of identity and history, both personal and political within the scope of textile crafts and contemporary visual arts, and the interwoven dialogue between the two that still exists. Eric C’s multidisciplinary practice values a tactile making process. Eric C is currently studying a Bachelor of Fine Art at Curtin University after recently graduating from North Metropolitan TAFE, from which their work was selected as part Hatched 2018 at PICA.