The pinch
2022
Medium
colour woodcut
Measurements
75.6 × 57.0 cm (image and sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Katherine Hattam in memory of Kate Hattam through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program, 2025
© Katherine Hattam
Gallery location
Gallery 13
Level 3, NGV Australia
About this work
Katherine Hattam works across painting, drawing, collage, printmaking and sculpture. In her work, Hattam explores themes of family, memory and the subconscious. The pinch was inspired by a black-and-white childhood photograph in which Hattam and her siblings gather around their new baby brother while a friend secretly pinches Hattam’s sister’s arm. Reimagining the scene in vivid blues and pinks, Hattam offers a layered meditation on the emotional undercurrents of domestic life.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Melbourne, Victoria
Edition
ed. 11/15
Printing/Publishing
printed by Simon White and Martin King at Australian Print Workshop (APW)
Inscription
inscribed in pencil (in image) l.c.: The Pinch
inscribed in pencil (in image) l.r.: K. Hattam
chopmark (in image) l.r.: APW (in rectangle)
Accession Number
2025.722
Departments
Australian Prints / Australian Prints & Drawings