Dalia Serrat

Montpellier

Dalia Serrat is a poet and printmaker based in Montpellier. She cuts linocuts and woodblocks in small editions and writes poems that often begin as captions for prints she has not made yet. Her work moves between French, Arabic and English. On Saturday mornings she opens her studio to neighbours who want to learn to print, and most of them come back.

FRAREN

Published on HANEEN

Linocut of a rusted garden gate and a corrugated shed roof, printed in a single rust red on sand-coloured paper

ARTWORK

The Colour of Rust

A printmaker spends a summer mixing a single red for five prints of rusted things. On colour as a decision you make once and then live with.

Linocut of an allotment garden in winter with a tool shed, a water butt and rows of cabbages under snow, printed in ochre and dark brown

ARTWORK

Prints from a Winter Allotment

Six linocuts cut over one winter in a shared allotment garden, and a note on why the cabbages got the most ink.

Woodcut of tall reeds leaning over slow water, printed in dark brown on a sand-coloured ground

POETRY

What the River Keeps

A shoe, a shopping trolley, the sound of a lorry crossing the bridge. A poem about what a river takes all year and what it shows us in August.