South Australian artist Dianne Longley is widely recognised as a highly skilled printmaker, and is renowned for the production of superb artist's books. Dianne has been fascinated for some time by the history of the print medium. The mid-fifteenth century European invention of the printing press, and the subsequent explosion of the printed word and symbolic image, forms an interesting analogy with today's information technology revolution.

Researching historical symbols, Dianne has subtly subverted the traditional structures by using personal narratives and created her own language of symbols. Celebrating the interface between traditional printing techniques and computer technology, the artist utilises both in her own hybrid form of art production. This marriage of old and new has seemingly limitless potential for interactivity. Her Chine Collé prints, for example, include digital imagery on traditional Japanese paper. This diversity of relationships is reflected in her imagery. Using parable and symbolism, the artist alludes to memory and travel, be it from one physical place to another, or from one plane of existence to another. Seemingly mundane objects are infused with an enigmatic presence, the domestic environment becomes a theatre of absurdist humour and self parody.

Dianne was born in Sydney, but is now based in Adelaide where she completed her Masters Degree at Flinders University in 2000. She has had many group and solo exhibitions and is represented widely in Australia and overseas including the Art Gallery of South Australia and Parliament House, Canberra.