Pia Östlund Read Bio Collapse
Pia Östlund is interested in plants and humans and their entangled histories. In a blend of the factual, the observed, and the imagined, she works with printing, drawing, textiles, and design often inspired by archival material, plant shapes, and color. She has revived a lost nineteenth-century printing process, known as nature printing, that creates curiously life-like images of plants on paper. The process’s colorful history and rediscovery are described in The Nature-Printer: A Tale of Industrial Espionage, Ferns and Roofing-Lead, co-written with Simon Prett (The TimPress, 2016).