Anah Dunsheath

Anah Dunsheath, part of Reed's MANZ - Medal Art New Zealand series, honors the Auckland-based jeweller and contemporary object-maker. The mokuhanga print likely references Dunsheath's vocabulary of constructed forms, found and reworked materials, and the intimate scale of body-worn art, translating those concerns into the carved block. Reed's contribution to the 2021 IMC juried exhibition in Nara fell under the [sumi](/glossary/sumi) theme, so the work would foreground black ink with tonal range generated through [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) gradients, multiple impressions, and the burnishing variation of the [baren](/glossary/baren) on dampened [washi](/glossary/washi) rather than through extensive color overlay. [Kento](/glossary/kento) registration allows the precise edge alignment that suits jewellery's geometry — the silhouette of a brooch, the inner profile of a ring, the linked structure of a chain — when translated into print. The portrait positions Dunsheath within the MANZ set's broader project of giving the printed page to artists whose primary medium is small, three-dimensional, and made for the hand.