Clancy and Tumnus

A double-portrait print whose title pairs two named characters — likely two of the small mammals or invertebrates Imazu treats as personalities rather than specimens. The naming convention splices Australian and English children's-literature registers, echoing Banjo Paterson's Clancy of the Overflow and C. S. Lewis's Mr Tumnus from The Chronicles of Narnia, in a manner characteristic of her practice, which routinely recasts everyday garden inhabitants through folk-tale framing. Etching and aquatint support the intimate scale she favors for these dual-figure compositions: a few inches of plate carrying two creatures rendered with affectionate specificity, the line work reading fur or carapace, the aquatint laying down the ground or sky against which they sit. Clancy and Tumnus belongs to a strand of named-pair pieces in her catalogue — a quiet cast of recurring characters whose individuality the prints confer through naming, posture, and gaze.