This year’s theme is “Island Awakening” and is open to artists in Painting, Sculpture, Textiles, Drawing, Printmaking, Photography and Mixed media. Entries now open for this $20,000 acquisitive art prize.
Entries close on 10th May. For more information and to enter, please visit bayoffireswinterartsfestival.com.au
This is the final post from the Burnie Print Prize.
Some Sydney Printmakers members are finalists in this exhibition.
Inkmasters Print Exhibition will show at Tanks Arts Centre Cairns. It is an international juried exhibition which brings together the best printmakers from our region with national and international artists from around the world. The works entered can be any print medium (or combination of media), traditional and contemporary, in a range of formats including 3D works such as artists’ books. 100 prints will be selected from all entries. Prizes will be awarded including an award named for Anna Eglitis, a senior Cairns artist who mentored some of the Far North’s most prolific and important artists.
On opening night there will be a public lecture at 5pm and the official launch commences at 6pm. All are cordially invited.
Ends on
Print Day in May and the California Society of Printmakers announces TRACES of Print Day in May, an online exhibition of prints highlighting artwork made during Print Day in May 2020-2021.
Traces are marks, features, trails and tracks. To trace is to discover, pursue, find and track. The history of humanity can be traced through artists, their marks, pursuits, recordings and questions.
Since 2007, Print Day in May has traced the work of a global community of artists making marks and sharing discoveries worldwide.
Eligibility
Prints created by participants of Print Day in May in 2020 & 2021. Prints need not have been made on Print Day in May but must be connected to (or Traced) to a Print Day in May project or idea.
All print projects, which include at least one traditional technique, including installation, performance, artist books, video and animation are eligible for submission.
Exhibition Dates
Summer 2021, beginning June 15 to September 15. Zoom reception and artists’ talks TBA.
Meet our Distinguished Jurors
Liz Chalfin, Founder Zea Mays Printmaking, Florence Massachusetts, USA
Raymond Arnold, Founder LARQ, Tasmania, Australia
Yamilys Brito Jorge, Director Taller Experimental de Grafica, Havana, Cuba
There will be three Jurors’ Choice Awards.
Entries and Fees
The entry fee is $7.50 per image USD.
Entries accepted March 20–May 20, 2021
For more information: printdayinmay.com
Sydney Printmakers has a cap of 60 members. Our stated aims are professional development for members and the promotion of and education about print. Our main tasks are finding exhibition opportunities and organizing the exhibition of members’ work. Sydney Printmakers is a self-funded and self-directed association, the organizational strength and relevance of which depends on the engagement and contribution of time and energy by its members.
Covid19 intervened in the call for new members last year. But now that we can gather again, we are calling for applications from professional artists to fill the five membership vacancies currently available. You will need to submit a statement of up to 200 words about your work and the reasons you would like to join our association, together with a CV of up to two pages and 6 – 8 low resolution images, no larger than 1MB each. Please also indicate in your statement how you would be able to contribute to the running and growth of Sydney Printmakers.
Make your online application HERE. Applications close 5pm on 1 August.
Short-listed artists will be invited to present their work to the association’s general meeting in mid-September 2021.
This year marks the 5th edition of AIMPE 2021.
Both Japanese and International artists are all invited to enter prints to AIMPE ’21. Prizewinning works will be awarded as a result of skilled multi-level jurying.
The purpose of this exhibition is to introduce ‘washi’ ; Japan’s traditional handmade paper (and cultural treasure) to international printmakers. In so doing, we are pleased to provide an opportunity for artists to exhibit their prints and to promote expressionistic fine art printmaking.
Award-winning works will be displayed within Awagami’s Hall of Awa Japanese Handmade Paper Museum. All other prints will be displayed in Awagami’s spacious “Inbe Art Space”. Award-winning prints previous four AIMPE will be displayed at satellite venues in Japan.
All artists are invited to submit works to the AIMPE exhibition and we look forward to receiving a great number of wonderful miniprints. During the AIMPE exhibition, printmaking specialists and selected artists will conduct workshops and print-related symposiums at the exhibition sites.
Go HERE to enter.
| RELIEF ONLINE EXHIBITION 2021 13 April – 22 MayRelief Online Exhibition 2021 features the work of thirty artists working with relief both nationally and internationally. This is our second online exhibition for the year and celebrates relief printmaking. All works have been completed with relief printmaking techniques, such as linocut, woodcut and Mokuhanga. |
Roslyn Kean has a work in this online exhibition. Go HERE to see the exhibition.
Rust, Blood, Gold and Cyanide
Woodcut, rust prints on kozo.
In 2019 I completed a short residency at Karangahake on the North Island of New Zealand. The ruins of the goldmine, especially the Victoria Battery (which processed the ore to enable extraction of gold) were like a grim monument to the labour of the many men and women who lived, worked and died there: the huge steel hoppers which once held the ore were now merely rusted remnants, and the grey concrete arches which once supported the cones now empty colonnades, and sudden shafts of bright light pierce the shattered roof of the building. The river below the Battery no longer runs blue with cyanide.
The local graveyards tell the stories of men killed in mine accidents.
“Silent Falls, Carrington”
Stone Lithograph and Chine Collé on Kitakata Handmade Japanese Paper
2020. 52 x 43 cm
“Silent Falls, Carrington” derives from local waterfalls in and around Budderoo National Park NSW, an area I’ve been revisiting to walk and draw. The falls are mesmerising and ever changing by the second while constant in their continuous flow. It’s the place I spent the last day of bushwalking together with my elderly parents in 2017. They instilled in me a love of land, quiet reflection and admiration for the details of nature. As with many of my landscapes, I feel there are opposing forces at play, balancing the complex and the simple, the sensitive and the bold, intimacy and grandeur, the inside world of personal sentiments and the outside world of nature’s rawness.
For me, with stone lithography there is a flow between the process, materials and image making. It’s very tactile, sensory and requires awareness. The materials have a history, the stone has had a life before you existed, there’s a sensitivity with marks and meditation in the pace of working. Lithography offers me a very direct way of making painterly marks within printmaking and carries with it a rich gamut of tones and textures such as reticulated washes which mirror forms also present in nature.