"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." A.A.Milne
You are cordially invited to the opening of the printmaking exhibition Marked by Water on Saturday 13 July, 2013, 5pm to 7pm. Light refreshments will be served.
Public viewing & printmaking demonstrations: 13 – 21 July, 2013 10am – 4pm
Framed and unframed prints for sale.
Warringah Printmakers Studio Gallery
Cnr Condamine & Lovett Sts Manly Vale NSW
Contact: enquiries@printstudio.org.au
I will be supervising the exhibition on Tuesday afternoon.
Here’s my works from the Crossing Boundaries show. I have included the artists statements for your interest. On Opening night the heavens opened and there was a violent storm. It’s a wonder anyone went!
Time Study.
I have always been drawn to the beauty of the surface of things, to surfaces marked by time. It’s a connection to the natural processes of ageing and the slow and beautiful cycle of decay and regeneration. These images are part of a current series exploiting the effects of rust on paper. Physical changes occur when you combine metal, paper and liquid in a kind of alchemy. The rusting process marks and colours both sides of the paper, and breaks down its structure, sometimes leaving holes. This piece will continue to deteriorate in a celebration of impermanence and imperfection. The rust marks on paper will remain, but the surface itself will disintegrate over time.
Armoured. Matt board, wax, pigment stick.
This work combines the soft, skin like surface of wax with the impression of a heated metal object applied to the surface. I have used a pigment stick to fill the printed image with colour. There are many tiles. They can be arranged in a different configuration to suit a different exhibition space.
The tiles, with their repetitive circular marks, can form a protective carapace for an imagined sensitive body within, or a shield against attack. This armour is rusted, and old.
So enjoyed my time with Nicki on Friday at the MCA, we decided to do it all again, but this time at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. We saw a lovely small Lloyd Rees exhibition, and also revisited this wonderful Ken Unsworth sculpture, a version of which I first saw many years ago.
And here is a detail from Seven Sisters by Tjampawa Katie Kawiny.
See a theme developing here?
I will also have a work in this exhibition at Pine Street Creative Art Centre. Artworks from Sydney Printmakers will be shown together with an exchange portfolio developed between The Open Studio, Canada, and Sydney Printmakers. My prints are not part of the portfolio, but I will be showing another rust print as part of the Sydney Printmakers exhibition.
This is the first exhibition for a project we have been working on for some time. We have all made works using printmaking techniques which might challenge the definition of print – and many of them will be presented in an unconventional manner.The ‘Crossing Boundaries’ exhibition features print-related artifacts resulting from the research of 10 artists (5 from Australia and 5 from New Zealand) who have been selected for their readiness and ability to move between materials and media without boundaries.
I will be presenting a triptych of prints on paper made using the rusting technique. They will be hung in space so that they can be viewed from both sides. Here is a detail from the central panel:
Please come along if you are in Auckland on the seventeenth of June. We would love to see you. There are more exhibitions of this work planned in New Zealand and Australia.
I am one of fifty printmakers in this exhibition at Curve Gallery, Newcastle. Its a collaboration between Newcastle Printmakers and Warringah Printmakers. I have one of my current obsession, rust prints, in the show. This one has some wax on it, too. Given the theme, Marked by Water, the wax makes the paper semi transparent, and reinforces the idea that water has ‘marked’ the paper, as well as producing the rust. Wish I could publish a picture here, but I didn’t photograph the work before submitting it. Maybe later!
As you can see, the Exhibition opens first in Newcastle at the Curve Gallery, and then at Warringah Printmakers Studio.
My work for the Sydney Printmakers Exhibition at the Ewart Gallery, Workshop Arts Centre, Willoughby. ‘Falling Softly’, rust on paper, 62cm W X 96cm H.
Please come along to the Opening and drinks with the artists on Friday 12th April from 6 to 8pm, at the Ewart Gallery, 33 Laurel Street, Willoughby.
WARRINGAH PRINTMAKERS STUDIO ANNUAL EXHIBITION 2012
Studio members will showcase their prints at the Sydney Antique Centre Gallery, 531 South Dowling Street Surry Hills, from Saturday 17 December to mid January 2013. Lots of time to come and see original handmade prints by students, teachers, committee and other full members of the Studio.
Here’s some of my work in the show – layered Monotypes on tissue with encaustic.
Yesterday I gave a talk at Manly Gallery to accompany the Leave Nothing but Prints Exhibition. Since I worked quite hard on it, (I find it very difficult to write about my own work) I thought I might publish it here, because it is an explanation of my approach. It was quite long, so I’ll have to publish it in a few parts.I hope you find it worth reading. This first part is illustrated with my photographs.
Why do I make prints?
The things that attracted me to printmaking were things I couldn’t find in painting, though others might. I am immensely attracted to paper, because I am really attracted to the surface of things. I make the joke that I am deeply superficial!
Through printmaking, I work with the paper, layering the images onto it, and trying to make the most of those happy accidents that are the gift of the printmaking gods from time to time. I look for marks I can make to create a seductive surface which will draw the viewer in. I have grown to love the random, the accidental, the gestural where the nature of the marks I make leaves room for a kind of visual exploration of the surface.
My images are about surface, rather than form, line, colour and so on. I am attempting to evoke a feeling, or a mood, through the surfaces I create.
On Sunday, I visited the Warringah Printmakers Show at Manly Gallery. I had attended the opening on Friday night, but had so much fun I didn’t have time to actually look at the work! And besides, there are artists talks each Sunday afternoon from 3pm.
Nathalie Hartog Gautier talked first about her images which were printed from the picket fence posts that are remnants of the settlement at Hill End, where she did a residency. She had painted the fence posts with the clay pigments she found in the environment there, and printed them relief to water color paper.
Denise Scholz Wulfing spoke about her work – finely executed copper etchings – and demonstrated printing a plate on the small demonstration press.
Sandra Williams discussed her approach to monotypes, and showed some other works from her portfolio, and Jill Carter Hansen, whose work in the exhibition includes an artists book, discussed the manner in which her interest in a wide range of techniques, including animation, photography, filmmaking, printmaking, collage and book construction, leads her to create mixed media works.
It was all very interesting.
Next Sunday at 3pm Trudy Goodwin, Susan Baran, Gwen Harrison and Rebecca Baird will talk about their artworks and the processes that they use. there’s plenty of opportunity to ask questions.
BOX OF BIRDS 