Biography
Anne-Marie du Boucher is a French printmaker and museum cultural mediator whose linocut (linogravure) practice engages the Japanese print tradition. She works at the Musée Girodet in Montargis, France, where her role centres on public engagement — leading tours and developing interactive, multisensory displays that open the museum's collection to a general audience.
Her printmaking is rooted in relief techniques that share fundamental principles with the woodblock methods of the ukiyo-e masters of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: as with traditional woodblock and screen prints, each additional colour in a linocut requires its own separately cut and inked matrix, a demanding process of registration and layering. She works with Japanese papers and materials and exhibits internationally on the miniature-print circuit.
In 2023 she received the Yoichi Fujimori Jurors' Prize at the Awagami International Miniature Print Exhibition in Tokushima, Japan, for her linocut Le Déjeuner — a recognition of her standing within the international miniature-print community.
Key Facts
- Nationality
- 🇫🇷France
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
- Subjects
- Figures
- Works Indexed
- 1
Frequently Asked Questions
Anne-Marie du Boucher is a French printmaker and museum cultural mediator whose linocut (linogravure) practice engages the Japanese print tradition. She works at the Musée Girodet in Montargis, France, where her role centres on public engagement — leading tours and developing interactive, multisensory displays that open the museum's collection to a general audience.
Anne-Marie du Boucher's work was shaped by the Contemporary Mokuhanga tradition in Japanese woodblock printmaking. Contemporary Mokuhanga: Contemporary mokuhanga (literally "wood-block print") encompasses artists working from approximately 1970 to the present who continue or reinvent traditional Japanese woodblock printing techniques.
Anne-Marie du Boucher's prints frequently feature figures.