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.

Sydney Printmakers Members success in Print Prizes

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          Seong Cho, Unaccompanied Trail VI

 

Sydney Printmakers members have been selected as finalists in several Prizes recently.

Seong Cho has been selected for the Waverley Art Prize with Unaccompanied Trail VI (above).

Janet Parker Smith and Ben Rak have been selected for the Geelong Acquisitive Print Awards 2021.

Anthea Boesenberg and Danielle Creenaune have been selected for the Firestation Print Studio Australian Monoprint Prize 2021.

Congratulations to all.

Burnie Print Prize: Evan Pank

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This is the final post from the Burnie Print Prize. 

‘Shield Wall’ was created in 2019 as a a response to the ongoing protests in Hong Kong, at the time against extradition laws that were being introduced in the parliament.  The protests developed many iconic images and scenes and was a very dynamic political situation that contained many different narratives of people standing up for what they believe in. 
 
The artwork was created to capture the imagery and the narrative of the protests at that time.  The imagery of police in armoured riot gear, protesters in their own make shift protection and utilising umbrellas for protection.  The use of smoke flares was used to represent: 
Blue – The police and the recent development of the use of blue dye in water cannons to mark protesters.
Yellow – The thin yellow line,  a group of older, non-violent protesters who would form a line between the police and younger activists to protect them. 
Red – The violence and conflict between protesters and police.
 
The artwork was also part of a group exhibition about the protests in early 2020 organised by NSW Hong Kongers.

Inkmasters Print Exhibition at Inkfest 2021 25 June to 25th July

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InkMasters Cairns InkFest a festival of all things print

 

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.

Burnie Print Prize: Anthea Boesenberg

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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.   

Burnie Print Prize: Danielle Creenaune

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Artwork details:

“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.

Burnie Print Prize: Salvatore Gerardi

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Here is Salvatore Gerardi’s work selected for the Burnie Print Prize.

Shadow Lines: Lake Cathie

 

This work is a direct reference to the environmental concerns facing the water catchment of Lake Cathie on the mid north coast of NSW.  Shadow Lines is informed by the dry surfaces and imprints left at the water’s edge over time. The shadows are the transient traces of memory. In this context a dialogue between the absence and presence of water both past and present speaks of the environmental consequences facing the region.

Burnie Print Prize: Seong Cho

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Seong Cho      Windy Hill

This work is entitled, ‘Windy Hill’ and is a woodblock print.  It is an abstract expression of the movement of wind through the air and natural landscape. I produced this work during my time at the Art Print Residence in Spain in March 2020, while I was in isolation at the height of the coronavirus pandemic in Europe. 

I was inspired to create this work by the strong spring winds as they moved through the grass and over the hills of Catalonia. The abstract shapes and lines in this work are also a metaphorical representation of life’s journey, where we are often swept up in events, ideas and experiences that are beyond our control, as if we are a leaf being blown along by the wind. Sometimes the metaphorical winds of life may take us to beautiful places, sometimes to dark crevasses or perhaps beyond the clouds, but the unexpected journey is what makes life worthwhile.