The Girlie Werewolf Project represents a creative exploration of the female werewolf as she has been represented throughout history. For close to three decades, the largely forgotten or under-represented narratives of female otherness and lycanthropy have served as the subjects of a series of elaborate reduction linocut portraits and other printmaking-informed works. In 2014, I completed my practice-led PhD project, The Girlie Werewolf Hall of Fame: historical and contemporary figurations of the female lycanthrope. While, in recent years, I have been moving more and more towards an autoethnographic exploration of my Australian-Lithuanian cultural identity and environmentally sustainable art practices, there will always be a soft spot in my heart for my lycanthropic ladies of the linocut. I welcome you to become acquainted with some of them below.
Click here to go to my public Facebook page, The Girlie Werewolf Project (where I still make an occasional post from time to time)
Girlie Werewolf Hall of Fame: original linocut & printmaking portraits
click on individual images to see studio views of the print in progress or learn the story behind the work
The Girlie Werewolf Hall of Fame, PhD exhibition installation view (detail). RMIT Site 8 Gallery, 2013. Photo: Andrius Lipšys
Click here to access my PhD thesis, The Girlie Werewolf Hall of Fame: historical and contemporary figurations of the female lycanthrope