Apply Now – Megalo Online Exhibitions

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Today’s the day! Megalo is launching an exciting range of dynamic print focused online exhibitions. Each curated exhibition will highlight a different print medium, relief, screen on paper, intaglio, lithography and screen on fabric. Below you can find out more about each exhibition and how to take part. This opportunity is open to both national and international artists.  
Our first exhibition will be a Relief exhibition and the deadline for submissions is 5pm Monday 4th May. Works can be made using any of the relief processes such as woodcut, linocut, wood engraving etc. as the primary medium.
We are aware that many printmakers are unable to currently access their normal printing spaces and studios. With this in mind, all work submitted to the exhibition can be from January 2019 onwards. You can find out more information by visiting our website or through the links below! 

Relief Online Exhibition – Submission Deadline 5pm Monday 4th May 
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Screen on Paper Online Exhibition – Submission Deadline 5pm Monday 15th June
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Intaglio Online Exhibition – Submission Deadline 5pm Monday 27th July
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Lithography Online Exhibition – Submission Deadline 5pm Monday 7th September
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Screen on Fabric Online Exhibition – Submission Deadline 5pm Monday 19th October
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Tim at MONA : Art in the time of Covid-19

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Galleries are using innovative ways to bring Art to the people. Read the full article by Tony Magnussun “Virtual Galleries” here.

 

In Tasmania, the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) has taken an approach that manages to retain aspects of the unique and slightly weird experience of being in the gallery. “Living artwork” TIM, whose real name is Tim Steiner, is being live-streamed as he continues to turn up daily and sit on a plinth for six hours, minus the odd toilet break. The tattoo that covers Steiner’s back, designed by Belgian artist Wim Delvoye, has been sold to a German art collector; when Steiner dies, his back will be skinned and framed. “He’s not the artist,” explains a MONA spokesperson. “Wim Delvoye is, but the idea to remain in the gallery was Tim’s alone. Since 2011, he has sat at MONA for more than 3500 hours.”

TIM’s presence in the empty gallery seems to embody the sort of isolation we’re all dealing with at the moment. It’s a poignant statement of defiance – the show must go on – yet it also alludes to the anxiety of infection and the separation of bodies in a time of panic, themes quite new to this evolving, living work of art.

TIM LIVE STREAM

We’re still here. So is Tim.

Artwork: Tim, 2006–08, Wim Delvoye
Live stream Wednesday–Monday 10am–4.30pm AEST

Cancellation of Opening and Events

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Gallery Lane Cove has cancelled the gathering for the opening, but the exhibition will still be going ahead.

Please show your support for Sydney Printmakers and for Gallery Lane Cove by visiting during the show if you are able, but please continue practising social distancing.

it might be a good idea to ring the gallery before attending, on 94284898

A Message from May Space

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In light of the rapidly developing COVID-19 situation, MAY SPACE is taking precautionary measures to keep everyone safe which at this time includes cancelling Gallery events and openings.
 
The well-being of our artists, staff and clients is a priority and we will continue to monitor the situation on a day by day basis and respond accordingly.
 
The Gallery will remain open at this point but with reduced hours, (now closed Sundays {and maybe Tuesdays?} ) and we respectfully request that everyone who visits abides by social distancing recommendations. 
 
On a positive note, we will continue to welcome small groups to the Gallery and instigating new online showings and walk throughs of the upcoming exhibitions, presented by the artists. Please follow us on Facebook and Instagram to stay up to date.
 
We are sorry for the inconvenience and hope we can still look forward to welcoming you to the Gallery in the near future. Stay safe, we are all in this together, BM.
 

Stopping Time: Material Prints 3000BCE to Now

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Material Prints 3000 BCE to Now at Newcastle Art Gallery.

29 February – 10 May 2020
14 days from now
10am to 5pm Tuesday to Sunday, 7 days during school holidays
 

STOPPING TIME: Material Prints 3000 BCE to Now expands on the definition of printmaking by bringing works of art together in thematic clusters, regardless of their period or place of production, collapsing the temporal distances between them and emphasising the dual power of material prints to embed or carry time and to stop time as we engage with them.

The exhibition extends well beyond the usual point of origin for printmaking in the fifteenth century when Johannes Gutenberg (1400-1468) invented the movable type printing press, to the perceived decline of printed imagery with the development of digital photography at the end of the twentieth century.

From ancient Mesopotamian images pressed in clay from cylinder seals to contemporary 3-D printing this exhibition positions traditional prints as part of a much larger constellation of printmaking. The timeless encounter with material prints can be described as “aesthetic time” (Keith Moxey Visual Time: The Image in History) but when artists attempt the synthetic transfer of ideas into matter and image it is more a process of collective cultural imagining and technological revelation rather than aestheticism.

Featuring key works of art from the Newcastle Art Gallery collection, STOPPING TIME also includes works of art from the Griffith University Art Museum along with several private collections and recent works of art by contemporary artists including Ali Bezer, Blair Coffey, Ryan Presley and Pamela See.

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John COBURN
The 6th Day: God created Man 1977
screenprint on paper, edition 34/50
52.0 x 72.0cm
Purchased with assistance from the Visual Arts Board, Australia Council 1978
Newcastle Art Gallery collection
Courtesy the artist’s estate

 

Supported by

Griffith University Art Museum Logo
Gordon Darling Foundation Logo
 

Let all the birds fly: the Hybrid Print

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WHAT:

Let all the birds fly: the hybrid print. An exhibition of eleven interstate artists whose work is print based but who have challenged and expanded our understanding of the print in a contemporary context. Printmaking is like a language that continually reinvents itself with artists investigating new meanings through materiality and making.
Questioning long-held traditions of printmaking, guest curators and artists Therese Kenyon and Patricia Wilson-Adams invited nine artists to join them in the exhibition Let all the birds fly: the hybrid print. Here the artists explore the very nature of printmaking and seek to push the boundaries of the medium and fly free from conventions.

Alison Alder (ACT), Jan Davis (NSW), Jan Hogan (Tas), Therese Kenyon (NSW) Ben Rak (NSW), Olga Sankey (SA), Heather Shimmen (Vic), Glen Skien (Qld), Patricia Wilson Adams (NSW), Sandra Winkworth (NSW), Linda Swinfield (NSW)

WHERE: Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 230 High St Maitland, NSW 2320.
mrag.org.au 02 4934 9859
Open Tues – Sunday 10am-5pm.

WHEN: Open from 8 February – 4 May 2020. Launch of Autumn Program 29 Feb. 3pm.

 

priNT

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Here’s an opportunity to exhibit a body of work or a large print in the Northern Territory. There’s not much time to enter your work, however.

From Mats Unden:

You are invited to participate in priNT2020 – a printmaking exhibition at Northern Centre for Contemporary Art in Darwin 13th – 28th March 2020.

The aim of the show is to highlight the important role printmaking techniques play in many visual artists practices. The aim is to create a nationally (and internationally) recognised annual print exhibition, while generating support towards establishing an open access print workshop in the Top End.

We are looking for big prints, suites, or bodies of work, as well as artist books and other ‘print’ works. Interdisciplinary and experimental works are encouraged to showcase the variety and diversity of the art-form, as long as the core technique is printmaking.

NCCA takes no commission on sales, but please consider donating a portion of the sale towards the aims and goals of priNT.

How to enter:

  • Send an email requesting a copy of the entry form to Mats(see address below). You will need to email the completed form back to Mats before March 1st.
  • Please make sure your works are at NCCA in Parap by 6th March, and a copy of the form is enclosed.
  • There is no entry fee, but all freight and insurance costs are covered by you.

 Works can be framed or unframed. Unframed works will be pinned or hanged using magnets. Unfortunately at this point there are no funds for freight or artist fees. If your work is for sale NCCA will direct any enquires to you, and no commission will be taken.

Postal Address:

NCCA PO Box 82 Parap NT 0840 or NCCA Vimy Lane Parap NT 0820

Please contact Mats for further information on mats.unden@hotmail.com.