Sydney Printmakers at the North Sydney Art Prize

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This year’s North Sydney Art Prize is open from the 14th May until the 29th May, every day from 10am to 4pm. The opening and announcement of prize winners is at noon on Saturday the 14th. The works are spread across the extraordinary site, including the chambers and the tunnels.

With five members of Sydney Printmakers accepted as finalists in the North Sydney Art Prize there’s a variety of approaches on offer.

Gary Shinfield has large works on paper, The Burnt Series, in one of the chambers.

Gary Shinfield, Burnt Series

Lea Kannar Lichtenberger has an installation, Suffocation of Avarice, in another of the chambers.

Lea Kannar Lichtenberger, Suffocation of Avarice 
Materials: builders’ plastic, hand stencilled builders plastic, ceramics, table, chairs, dinner setting, projection and sound
250 x 300 x 600 cm

Anthea Boesenberg, Anna Russell and non member Rhonda Nelson have a large collaborative work, Canaries in the Coal Mine, sited in the tunnel.

Anthea Boesenberg, Anna Russell, Rhonda Nelson, Canaries in the Coal Mine, 40 bamboo and timber cages, canaries, lighting, timber and metal support structure.

Laura Stark has a print work, Millstream Burning, in the Cottage.

Laura Stark, Millstream Burning Series, collagraph.

And Seong Cho also has her work, Windy Hill 11, in the Cottage.

Seong Cho, Windy Hill 11, woodcut

oare spread across the site, including the chambers and tunnels,

Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award 2021

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The exhibition, having been delayed due to COVID, will finally be open from 22 Jan 2022 – 27 Mar 2022. There will be no Opening function.

Sydney Printmakers members represented in the show are Danielle Creenaune, Roslyn Kean, Laura Stark and Anne Starling.

Environmental Art and Design Award 2021

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Salvatore Gerardi, Shadow Lines: Lake Cathie, double concertina artists books, carborundum and relief print processes

Salvatore Gerardi, Angus Fisher, Nathalie Hartog-Gautier, Anna Russell and Lea Kannar Lichtenberger have been selected as finalists for the 2021 Northern Beaches Environmental Art and Design Award.

The exhibition will open on November 12th and continue until December 12th at Manly Art Gallery and Museum and other Northern beaches venues.

Salvatore is also a finalist in the Paddington Art Prize. This will be shown at Defiance Art Gallery, October 15th to October 24th

Anna Russell, Killing Time, stained paper, ink, collage, beeswax, 59 x 84cm.

Nathalie Hartog-Gautier

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Nathalie Hartog-Gautier
Trying to Mend the Landscape, gouache drawing on digital print.

Nathalie has been selected for the Fisher’s Ghost Art Award 2021 with this gouache drawing on a digital print.

Caroline Craig, Evan Pank and Laura Stark are also finalists in the show. The award exhibition will be shown at Campbelltown Arts Centre from Saturday 30 October – Friday 10 December 2021.

Nathalie has also been selected, with the series of drawings below, for the Lynn McCrae Memorial Drawing Award 2021. This award will be shown at the Noosa Regional Gallery from 5 November to 5 December 2021.

Natalie Hartog-Gautier - From Delft to Hill End
From Delft to Hill End, ink, collage, dimensions variable.

To top off a successful year, Nathalie has been awarded the 2022 Artist’s Residency at Bundanon.

Further Success by Members of Sydney Printmakers

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Seong Cho, Unaccompanied Trail VIII, 60 x 145cm, 2020, woodcut, hand printed on Korean Mulberry paper.

Seong Cho has had her large print, Unaccompanied Trail VIII selected for the International Print Exhibition 2021 at Ty Pawb in Wrexham, Wales, UK.

Anne Starling has had three of her works selected for the Mini Maxi Graphic Print Exhibition at the Galleri Heike Arndt DK, Berlin, Germany. This exhibition opens on November 3rd, 2021.

Anne Starling - A Nuclear Family
Anne Starling, A Nuclear Family, linocut.

Congratulations to Seong and Anne.

Recent successes for members of Sydney Printmakers

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Danielle Creenaune -
Danielle Creenaune, Epic 2021, lithograph, mokulito and relief print, 86 x 155cm

Danielle Creenaune, Laura Stark, Anne Starling and Roslyn Kean have been selected as finalists in the Hazelhurst Works on Paper Award 2021 (to be exhibited  22nd Jan – 27th March 2022).

Salvatore Gerardi and Gary Shinfield have been selected for The Gosford Art Prize 2021. Dates for showing the exhibition have not been announced yet.

Susan Rushforth and Roslyn Kean have been selected for Sumi-Fusion, International Juried Mokuhanga Exhibition (To be exhibited online and in Nara, Japan, from the 1st to the 4th December 2021).

Roslyn Kean, Winter Courtyard Shadows, 2021, Mokuhanga, 76 x 56cm

Waverley Woollahra Printmaking Prize 2021

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Maximilian Gosling
Maximilion Gosling The Onion Farmers House Etching
37.5cm x 30cm

Max Gosling and Marta Romer were finalists in this award, and Max won the Traditional Printmaking Award with his image “The Onion Farmers House“. Congratulations to both Max and Marta.

The Onion Farmers House — Maximilian Gosling | Etching | 37.5cm x 30cm
“The etching “The onion farmers’ house” is set in a fictional world where anthropomorphic badgers take the centre stage. The fiction follows a narrative centered around a sentient onion taking control of a badger populated city called Madráyiss. This image captures a section of the story where the main protagonist arrives at the onion farmers’ house and forms a plan to reclaim Madráyiss and overthrow The Onion Monarchy.”

The judge, Rebecca Beardmore, said this about Max’s work:

“The Onion Farmers House is whimsical, otherworldly. The detail in the linework and the textural surfaces is exquisite, from starry skies to mountainous rocks that look like Banksia seed pods. I loved the way this artist plays with scale, the miniature to the gigantic. Beautifully rendered.”

Marta submitted a digital print, titled “Midcentury Modern“, which is part of an ongoing series.