Jazmina cininas biography of rory
by Jazmina Cininas
Jazmina Cininas is a practicing visual artist, curator, arts writer and lecturer in Fine Art Printmaking. Her elaborate linocut portraits reflect a long-standing fascination with representations of female werewolves, and draw on a wide range of sources such as historical records of witch hunts and werewolf trials, psychiatric and medical literature, fiction, folklore, cinema and the internet. Jazmina’s chapter ‘Fur Girls and Wolf Women: Fur, Hair and Subversive Female Lycanthropy’ appears inShe-Wolf: A Cultural History of Female Werewolves(Manchester, 2015). For the record, Jazmina is not a werewolf.
In 2011, I created the linocut portrait Erzsébet was frequently mistaken for a vampirecommemorating the early seventeenth-century Hungarian countess Erzsébet Báthory, as part of my Girl
Jazmina Cininas is a practicing visual artist, curator, arts writer and lecturer in Fine Art Printmaking. Her elaborate linocut portraits reflect a long-standing fascination with representations of female werewolves, and draw on a wide range of sources such as historical records of witch hunts and werewolf trials, psychiatric and medical literature, fiction, folklore, cinema and the internet. Jazmina’s chapter ‘Fur Girls and Wolf Women: Fur, Hair and Subversive Female Lycanthropy’ appears inShe-Wolf: A Cultural History of Female Werewolves(Manchester, 2015). For the record, Jazmina is not a werewolf.
| Erzsébet was frequently mistaken for a vampire, 2011 reduction linocut edition: 20 image: 37.0 x 28 cm paper: 43 x 34.3 cm |
In 2011, I created the linocut portrait Erzsébet was frequently mistaken for a vampirecommemorating the early seventeenth-century Hungarian countess Erzsébet Báthory, as part of my Girl