Show and Tell Event by Mukesh Sharma

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Please join Indian printmaker Mukesh Sharma 4-6pm 1 November

at Jenny Robinson’s Studio 60-67 Vine Street Redfern

to discuss his printmaking practice and share selected works. Sharma will be with his Australian friend Judy Bourke from Woollongong.

Mukesh Sharma (top)Hopes and Dreams 2024 Viscosity etching 70x70cm, (below) In Search of Harmony Within Polarity 2020, Viscosity etching 57x105cm


Mukesh Sharma (b. 1974, India) is a contemporary multidisciplinary artist
based in New Delhi. He holds an MFA in Printmaking from the Maharaja
Sayajirao University of Baroda. Working across printmaking, painting and large-
scale sculptural installation, his practice explores the intersections of tradition
and contemporary culture, the impact of technology on human relationships,
and the changing relationship between humanity and nature. Discarded
computer keys are a recurring material in his work, through which he
investigates memory, technological excess, consumption and the complexities
of contemporary life.
His selected solo exhibitions include Decoding Digital DNA, Bikaner House, New
Delhi; Orthography of a Recondite Past, Quarentena Galería, Santiago, Chile;
The Keyboard of Small Things, Gallery Sumukha, Bengaluru; and Re(visions),
University of Wollongong, Australia.
Sharma has participated in more than 35 international exhibitions, art fairs,
residencies and biennales, including the Venice Architecture Biennale, India Art
Fair and Tokyo International Print Biennale. His awards and distinctions include
a National Scholarship from the Ministry of Human Resource Development,
Government of India; the Lalit Kala Akademi Scholarship; Rajasthan Lalit Kala
State Awards; and the AIFACS Best Print Award.
His works are held in collections including the National Gallery of Australia and
the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi. Salman Rushdie selected his
work for the cover of the French edition of Shalimar the Clown, published by
Gallimard, Paris.


Sharma is part of Sculpture by the Sea Bondi this year

Makesh Sharma Untilted 2025 Viscosity etching on handmade Wasli 35x45cm

RSVP ro@romurray.com.au Mukesh Sharma in subject line

Late Notice of Members Exhibition News: Danielle Creenaune and Janet Parker Smith. Last Week

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Danielle Creenaune is in a group show Threefold at the Australian Galleries Melbourne. Artists talks are 3pm Saturday 17 October.

Janet Parker Smith is in a group show Between Us, with Lisa Woolfe and Sandra Winkworth, at Chrissie Cotter Gallery Camperdown, with a closing event 1-3pm Sunday 18 October.

Chrissie Cotter Gallery is open 11-4pm Thursday-Sunday

Members News

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Congratulations to members Mark Rowden, Wendy Stokes and Ro Murray.

Mark Rowden Self Portrait , selected for Gallery One Smallacombe Self Portrait Prize 2026.

Exhibition 28 Aug-23 Sept

Mark Rowden Quiet Country, selected for 9×5 Landscape Art Prize 2026

Wendy Stokes Retracing Memory, Giverny progresso coloured pencil and pastel on paper, 70x50cm. Selected for the Kedumba Drawing Award 2026, 22 Aug-27 Sept Kedumba Gallery Wentworth Falls.

Ro Murray (collaborative drawing with Mandy Burgess) PASSION (detail) 2026, Charcoal and ink mural on Fabriano, 150x1900cm. In the group exhibition UNRuly at M16 Artspace Canberra.

Artist Talks on the last day, 3pm 23 August.

Roslyn Kean Podcast About Mokuhanga

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Roz Kean has been interviewed in a podcast about her time in Japan researching the practice of Mokuhanga printmaking.

Canadian based Andre Zadoronzy has been producing an international series of podcasts called The Unfinished Print ,focused on the practice of Mokuhanga ( Japanese Traditional Woodblock Printing with pigment and water)

https://theunfinishedprint.libsyn.com/roslyn-kean-printmaker-the-spectrum-of-colours-that-exist

https://theunfinishedprint.libsyn.com/roslyn-kean-printmaker-the-spectrum-of-colours-that-exist

Sydney Contemporary Carriageworks 2025

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Many members of Sydney Printmakers will be showing in the

Paper section at Sydney Contemporary 11-14 September

this is just some of the work

Booth B02 Tiliqua Tiliqua Print Studio and Gallery: representing Ro Murray and Lois Waters

RO MURRAY Dreaming in the Moonlight III 2025, multiple lino prints, unique state, 60×45

Booth B10 Up Space : representing Therese Kenyon and Seraphina Martin

THERESE KENYON Lake St Claire 1, 2025
Ink, watercolour and screen print on Arches Rives BFK
76 cm x 56 cm

Booth B17 Sydney Printmakers: representing Tina Barahanos, Anthea Boesenberg, Angela Hayson and Andrew Totman. They will be giving artist talks Saturday 1.30pm in the Paper section.

TINA BARAHANOS, The Trees Carried Another Place With Them 2025, multiple etching

Booth B12 Gary Shinfield Studio and Collection: Gary Shinfield, Seong Cho, Nathalie Gautier-Hartog.

All three artists will be giving an artists talk on Saturday 13th September at 3pm in the Paper section.

SEONG CHO Contemplating the Void XV 2025, woodcut print 1/10, 40 x 40 cm

Booth B23 Jenny Robinson Studio: Jenny Robinson, Angela Hayson, Janet Parker Smith

JENNY ROBINSON

Janet Parker Smith @ Ridge Street Window Gallery

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Janet Parker-Smith Wicked Garden  |  24 November 2023 – 8 January 2024

The work in this installation reconfigures found materials from our urban landscape and repurposes prints from the artists collection from over the past 30 years. Look and you might see recognisable materials from everyday life that have been transformed into new creatures, objects and forms.

Using different art forms including collage, printmaking, digital print, ceramics, knitting and textiles combined with chattels from the everyday, these materials come together to create an artwork known as the ‘Wicked Garden’. Showing a flight of imagination it looks at ideas around our changing environment, friendships and adapting to new surroundings.

About Janet Parker-Smith

Janet Parker-Smith has a cross disciplinary process using Printmedia, sculpture and collage to create her work. She has been exhibiting nationally and internationally for over 30 years. Janet is well known as a local arts worker and also is a sessional teacher at the National Art School and Sydney Collage of the Arts.

Artist talks

Janet Parker-Smith In Conversation Saturday 9 December 11am

Book your spot

Visit the Ridge Street Window Gallery, 43 Ridge Street, North Sydney 7 days per week until 10pm.

Susan Baran and Baldessin Print Studio @ Australian Galleries, Melbourne.

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Susan Baran, Alhambra Palace, 2020, Photopolymer Intaglio, Hand Colouring.

BALDESSIN – THE LEGACY – TWO EXHIBITIONS: George Baldessin & Baldessin Studio

Exhibition Dates: 25 October – 12 November 2022
28 & 35 Derby Street Collingwood VIC 3066
Open 7 days 10am to 6pm


George Baldessin Exhibition

This highly anticipated exhibition features a collection of George Baldessin’s iconic prints, as well as a significant selection of works that have never been exhibited before, including drawings, paintings and sculpture.

George Baldessin

The Baldessin Studio

This vibrant group exhibition presents works created at the Baldessin Studio by 29 contemporary artists, both established and emerging, working across a wide range of styles, genres and techniques.

Susan Baran is one of the selected artists.


For more details or images contact:
media@australiangalleries.com.au australiangalleries.com.au

Artists in Conversation with the Exhibition Curator, Katherine Roberts, Manly Art Gallery and Museum: Joanne Gwatkin Williams

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Joanne Gwatkin Williams, Destruction, Linocut, 2021, 23 x 56cm

How does your work address the theme ‘To the Edges’?

For myself, this has been a very apposite theme for a number of reasons. The initial reason being direct experience of the bush fires in 2019/2020. I live on a hundred acres in remote NSW South Coast and watched the sky turn a livid brown and the sun turn an angry orange as the flames from the Currowan Fires crept closer, until we were surrounded and parts of our land a-flame. Myself, husband, dog, were literally ‘on edge’ for days and nights with fire hoses out, water pumps on and waking every couple of hours through the night to check that fallen and smoking trees had not re-ignited and started a fresh fire. So the first piece in the trio deals with this aspect of the theme.

The three parts of Joanne’s work, Destruction, Chaos and Adaptation.

The second piece ‘Chaos’ suggests that humanity’s greed, carelessness and poor behaviour has lead to chaos and disaster – a theme influenced by Mario Vargas Llosa’s book ‘The Storyteller’ – and here we see flood, fire, calamity inflicted on the world. Finally, man’s poor environmental record has brought man and planet to the edge of extinction – sea levels have risen and imagined, monstrous sea creatures dominate …

Joanne hand printing her work on Unryu Paper.

Can you describe the technical process you went through to achieve the finished work and what technical challenges you encountered along the way?

Technically, the pieces were reasonably straight-forward, any difficulties tended to be in cutting the detail and ensuring clarity. Perhaps my choice of fibrous Japanese Unryu paper – chosen because I felt the woody fibres would enhance the message of the pieces – did make it harder to get solid blacks where I really needed them and as a result I did end up printing them all by hand.

What do you see as the role of Sydney Printmakers for the next 60 years?

Like other successful printmaking groups, we can show the great expressive possibilities of our craft, the wonderful images that can be achieved using only print techniques; that printmaking skills are great tools for everyone to use either alone or in combination with other media.

How do you see the role of printmaking in general, contributing to the conversation about contemporary art practice.

Printmaking utilises numerous flexible and dynamic tools and can probably lead or assist art practice to move in a multitude of directions.

Chaos, linocut, 2021, 23 x 56cm