Romana Ashraf

Romana Ashraf is a printmaker and painter from London, currently based in Dublin. She recently studied at the Royal College of Art in London, and joined as a member of Black Church Print Studio in 2026. She works with screenprint, relief print and monotypes to create works that explore materiality, tactility, and the relationship between image, memory and the body. Her works have been exhibited in both the UK and Ireland.

I am interested in the aesthetic and conceptual potentials of printing onto silk – a surface that absorbs ink differently from paper and creates a dynamic, sensual space between control and chance. I explore the body, often my own, through printed works that document my painting practice as wearable and experiential. I am also interested in how images, photographs and memories can be reinterpreted through screenprint – how the medium combines both traditional and digital techniques, and what I myself learn through the labour of printmaking.