My work at Gaffa

Some detailed photographs

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Kathryn Wightman’s work to the left, Kathy Boyle’s suspended garden of flowers in the foreground.

On the Same Page – collaborative exhibition with Hunter Island Press.

The exhibition is currently showing at The Atrium, Henry Jones Art Hotel, Hobart. My group comprised Janet Parker Smith, Amy Hunter and myself.
This is what we came up with:

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It was a very interesting and challenging project.

Warringah Printmakers Exhibition

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DEMONSTRATIONS OF PRINTMAKING TECHNIQUES WILL BE HELD EACH WEEKEND OF THE EXHIBITION

Saturday 14 June

Etching & Relief Printing with Rebecca Baird

Sunday 15 June

Encaustic Monotype with Anthea Boesenberg

Saturday 21 June

Collagraph with Lisa Marshall

Sunday 22 June

Photopolymer Plate – intaglio & à la poupée Susan Baran

Saturday 28 June

Monotype with Helen Clare

Sunday 29 June

Traditional Japanese woodblock (Moku Hanga) with Rosanna Jurisevic

Tarrawarra

I was very impressed with this wonderful art museum in the Yarra Valley near Melbourne.

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The TarraWarra Museum of Art is the first privately funded, significant public visual arts museum to be set up under the Australian Government’s philanthropic measures announced in March 1999. TWMA operates as a not-for-profit institution, with a charter to display Australian art from the second half of the twentieth century to the present day. It is owned by Eva and Mark Beson, and features their extensive collection of Australian Art.

In 2000, Allan Powell’s design for this elegant building, arcing gently from the earth in concert with the contours and hues of the landscape, was chosen.

The building and the art within it sit together perfectly. Although the views from the building are beautiful, they are constrained by the design so that the emphasis is on the artwork.

‘Solitaire’, the current exhibition, has been beautifully curated. It includes some work by George Baldessin.

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Wax sticks for the Workshop

Today I made some coloured wax sticks for my workshop at Baldessin Press near Melbourne. There’s still one place left I think, if you hurry!

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Major studio clean up and renovation.

My silence recently has had something to do with doing lots of work in the studio and at home…..not artwork, but changes to the studio to improve ventilation and organisation, and changes at home to do long overdue chores that I needed an extra hand with. My sons friend David is here from the Czech Republic, and he helped me with a lot of things I needed to get done.
And now I can have workshops in my studio if I want to!

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