Elia Vanderheyden (2000, Belgium) combines both Archaic Printmaking Techniques and contemporary technological developments within Artificial Intelligence and Lasercut. At the end of June 2024, he graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp and continued his Journey in building a collective printmaking space under the name SPLINTER of which he is the Co-founder and Chairman. Elia worked together with Museum de Reede under the collective of SPLINTER to provide a platform for young printmakers to exhibit in a contemporary printmaking museum. His artworks consist of two dialogues within the medium of Print: from creating digital landscapes through various A.I. Tools and Photoshops techniques that are translated into woodcuts through lasercutting. And printed
by hand in the style of classical Japanese Woodcuts or through the use of western Contrapresses. To creating landscapes by focusing solely on the texture of wooden panels and inking strategies for a series of noise prints with the goal of neutralizing the mind in a world of overstimulating visual information fields.
Elia Vanderheyden is represented by Uitstalling Art Gallery in Genk (Belgium) since August 2024.