Lana Wilding

Lana Wilding is an Australian mokuhanga printmaker whose practice was internationally recognized through selection for the 3rd International Mokuhanga Conference (IMC) exhibition 'Beauty of Mokuhanga: Discipline & Sensibility' at the University of Hawaii at Manoa from 21 August to 1 October 2017. She was one of eleven Australian artists selected for that international exhibition — alongside Roslyn Kean, Susan Rushforth, Terry McKenna, Jacqueline Gribbin, Jolanta Ewart, Margaret White, Trish Yates, John Crawford, Deborah Metz, and Australia/Japan-based Neilton Clarke — establishing her place within the Australian mokuhanga community that has been the most active outside Japan in adopting the water-based woodblock printing tradition.

The two prints she presented at the 2017 IMC exhibition — 'Mokuhanga Orchid' and 'Mokuhanga Staghorn' — signal her sustained interest in botanical subjects, with the works' titles explicitly naming the technique as part of the artwork title. The orchid and staghorn fern are both characteristic Australian native plants (the staghorn fern, Platycerium, is endemic to Australian east-coast rainforest and is a recurring subject in Australian botanical art), and her selection of these motifs grounds her water-based woodblock practice in the Australian flora rather than transposing Japanese-traditional subject matter directly.

The International Mokuhanga Conference is the principal triennial international meeting of working mokuhanga printmakers and the organizational anchor of the International Mokuhanga Association (IMA) since 2011. The conference's juried exhibition is the standard credential for mokuhanga artists working outside Japan, and Wilding's selection for the 2017 University of Hawaii exhibition placed her within the active international mokuhanga community at a time when the field was experiencing significant growth in Australia, Western Europe, and North America.

Wilding maintains an artist profile on Bluethumb (bluethumb.com.au/lanailywilding), the Australian online art marketplace. The visible profile metadata identifies her as an Australian artist with intaglio and printmaking practice, though her current commercial inventory at the platform is limited (the profile shows zero artworks currently for sale as of the 2026 documentation period). The principal verified channel through which her work is documented is the 2017 IMC exhibition catalogue.

Beyond the 2017 IMC selection and the Bluethumb profile metadata, biographical detail on Wilding — birth year, training pathway, current studio location, exhibition history outside the IMC selection — is not surfaced through public-facing English-language channels. Her practice falls within the broader Australian mokuhanga community whose institutional centers include the Australian Print Workshop (Melbourne), the Megalo Print Studio (Canberra), Sydney Printmakers, and the regional residencies that have hosted MI-LAB-trained Australian printmakers such as Roslyn Kean.

Within the Australian mokuhanga community of practice, Wilding is one of the working printmakers whose 2017 IMC selection serves as the principal documentation of her active membership in the international mokuhanga circuit. Her botanical-subject prints align with the broader Australian interest in adapting the mokuhanga technique to native flora and landscape, and the 'Mokuhanga' prefix in her work titles emphasizes her sustained commitment to water-based woodblock as a defining medium choice. Future research could extend her bio through Australian Print Workshop catalogues, Sydney Printmakers' annual exhibition listings, and IMC exhibition records.