Drum Leaf Binding Workshop with Monica Oppen.

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Warringah Printmakers Studio

Monica Oppen
Drum Binding
saturday 27 & sunday 28 may

Drum-leaf Binding is one of the best binding styles for printmakers! It is a simple but adaptable binding style which can be either a codex or a concertina, can have pop-outs, fold-outs, cut-throughs and sewn sections added without the binding becoming more difficult. In this workshop the bookbinding basics will be covered as well as an exploration of the possibilities of extending the binding into its more exciting contortions. Participants can use proof prints, rejected prints, found material, decorative papers to create the book. Text can be printed using rubber stamps, typewriter, cutting lino or stencils etc. This workshop is suitable for beginners and those who have had some binding experience.

Our guest bookartist, printmaker & writer, Monica Oppen, has trained & worked as a hand binder & has 20 years of binding experience. She has bound her own work & collaborated with other artists. Her books are in public & private collections in Australia and overseas.

Time: 10am to 4pm
Members: $275.00
Non members:  $300.00 (includes Assoc.Membership)

BOOKINGS susan@printstudio.org.au

Call for submissions

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Awagami International Miniature Print Exhibition 2017 Call for Submissions

Spring haz come to Tokushima, and we are looking forward to increasingly good weather.Thank you for your continued support of our creative endeavors.
You may be pleased to know that the ‘Awagami International Miniature Print Exhibition’(first held in 2013), will be held once again this year.
Thank you so much for taking time to help make the past two “AIMPE”exhibitions successful. The 2015 exhibition received 1,108 print submissions from 756 artists (from 51 countries) with a few prizewinners being younger ‘up-and-coming’artists.
This cross-cultural and ageless print creativity indicates the breadth of international printmaking that we are pleased to support through A.I.M.P.E. I hope that we can rely on everyone’s support once again this year to continue to grow A.I.M.P.E and offer this message of sincere gratitude to all who have helped.
Please also consider this letter as a kind invitation to submit your miniprint to A.I.M.P.E as well. Applications will be accepted starting May 1st .

Go here for further details and application form.
Awagami International Miniature Print Exhibition
A.I.M.P.E Office

Kawahigashi 141,Yamakawa-cho,Yoshinogawa City,Tokushima 779-3401

Geelong Acquisitive Print Awards

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Deidre Brollo
Fathom 2013
archival pigment prints, papercuts, embossing (artist book); edition 3/7
Geelong Gallery
Ursula Hoff institute award (winner), 2015
Courtesy of the artist

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Geelong acquisitive print awards

The Geelong Gallery invites artists to submit entries for the 2017 Geelong acquisitive print awards. This acquisitive prize and exhibition has been conducted by the Gallery since 1996.

An exhibition of selected prints will be held at the Gallery from 5 August to 8 October 2017, from which, prizes totalling $8,500 will be awarded consisting of: the Geelong acquisitive print award of $5,000, the Ursula Hoff Institute award of $3,500 and additional acquisitions up to $3,000.

The prize-winning prints will be announced at the opening of the exhibition on Friday 18 August 2017 and will become the property of the Gallery upon payment of the prize money (of $5,000 and $3,500 respectively) to the winning entrants and to the artists whose works are acquired (to the value of the nominated purchase value).

For the first time, one additional artist will be selected by the judging panel and invited to take up a 5-day printmaking residency at Queenscliff Gallery and Workshop (QG&W). This award includes five days studio access and basic materials. Accommodation, specialist editioning paper and inks are not included.

Please note: the 2017 Geelong acquisitive print awards is open to artists practicing in recognised printmaking processes (such as intaglio, relief, planographic and digital processes) and does not extend to photographic prints.

For further information and entry go here.

Gary Shinfield/Irena Conomos Workshop in the Blue Mountains

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‘WALKING THE TRACK’ IN AUTUMN

Artists’ Workshop Sat 8 April – Tue 11 April 2017

4 days and 3 nights

Gary Shinfield Printmaker email: gary@garyshinfield.info

Irena Conomos Photographer email: irenaconomos@gmail.com

Explore the regional environment in a botanic garden and bush-land in Medlow Bath

Create through printmaking, drawing and photography

Develop an artist’s folio in on-site studio

Suitable for those with some experience of printmaking and photography.

For workshop details and registration please enquire on the above emails.

For accommodation options please email Gary Shinfield.