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 theme, so the work would foreground black ink with tonal range generated through bokashi gradients, multiple impressions, and the burnishing variation of the baren on dampened washi rather than through extensive color overlay. 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.