William Kentridge is a world renowned multidisciplinary artist, working across printmaking, drawing, sculpture, writing, film, performance, music, theatre and collaborative practices. His work follows themes of politics, science, literature and history, while also allowing for a sense of contradiction and uncertainty. While many artists dabble in printmaking on the side of their practice, Kentridge is a modern pioneer in the medium – drawings and theatre projects regularly emerge from his prints, and vice versa. For Kentridge, printmaking is in itself a multi-disciplinary practice, considering an “etching as an extraordinary, ridiculously complicated form of animation,” knowing that a single plate will constantly be reworked, resulting in several different states. One of the key characteristics of Kentridge’s practice is the inter-relatedness of his various forms of work. Often he is working on a multitude of projects simultaneously and so the works in one medium inform works in another, creating narrative strands running from project to project. When he is producing an opera, it’s probable that he is doing some drawings and prints on the way.