Lesley Sharpe is a Scottish printmaker currently based in East London. Her work combines her interest in print, process and place using analogue and digital printmaking techniques to explore the conceptual and material interpretation of landscape. Her print practice is an exploration of all things material and immaterial – the spatial questions such as where are things found, how they develop, change over time and what are our relationship to them asked by the geographer, are akin to the questions asked, as a printmaker, when making an image.

Her research borrows methods of image making from photography and printmaking and is inspired by her passion for randonneurring, a form of long-distance cycling.

Since 2008, a key element of her practice has centred around the production of fine art prints and artist’s books in collaboration with and for artists. These have been produced through her imprint The Small Press and Holding Page, an editions practice, which she co-founded and co-directed from 2011 to 2020.

A selection of these works can be viewed on the Bookworks section. You can also view Holding Page’s archive here.