Lithography Studio Contents for Sale

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A message from Stephen Andrews.

I am helping a friend to dismantle a substantial private print studio in the Western Suburbs. All of the printing equipment and accessories are for sale.

Some items such as the litho press have already been sold, but there is still a freestanding Charles Brand etching press, litho stones of various sizes, rollers (composite, and a superb unused leather roller), levigators, hotplate, ventilation cabinet, paper (Arches & Magnani), coloured inks, plan drawers, etc

Inspection is by appointment. If anyone has an interest  in particular items I can supply more details and photographs.

Contact: dragoman (AT) ozemail.com.au.

Basil Hall Workshop

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WARRINGAH PRINTMAKERS STUDIO 

sat. 21 & sun. 22 July

BASIL HALL

copper etching with chine collé incorporating hand colouring using pure pigment 

Learn traditional etching skills with masterprinter Basil Hall using copper plates and ferric chloride which is a safer, effective way to work.

Gain experience in the techniques of soft ground and hard ground, and experiment with different mark marking, drawing and printing techniques such as chine collé and using pure pigments to add colour to your prints.

Time: 10am to 4pm
Members: $300.00
Non members: $325.00
Bookings: Susan@printstudio.org.au.

Angus Fisher at Australian Galleries

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Australian Galleries SYDNEY

ANGUS FISHER

Terra Australis

MEDIA RELEASE

Exhibition Dates: 17 April – 6 May 2018

15 Roylston Street Paddington NSW 2021 Open 7 days 10am to 6pm

‘Terra Australis, Latin for ‘South Land’, is a hypothetical continent first posited in antiquity, which appeared on maps between the 15th and 18th centuries. Many of my drawings play and expand on early European visions of Australia – The exotic, foreign and antipodal preconceptions of the South Land and the natural/ unnatural history that was assigned to it.’ Angus Fisher, 2018

Angus Fisher’s Birds of New Holland folio exists as a contemporary accompaniment to J.W. Lewin’s 1808 folio of the same name. Fisher’s folio consists of 24 editioned hand-coloured etchings that document the birds of the contemporary Greater Sydney region, similar to that defined as ‘New Holland’ in Lewin’s original 1808 publication.

The Birds of New Holland 2017 folio, just like Lewin’s original work, places its subjects in settings

and scenarios common to their habits. The folio, which features many urbanised settings, not only demonstrates this dramatic human development of the area in the 200 years, but also, the integration between nature and the built, human world. The folio aims to develop Lewin’s vision of the ‘Sydney’ area by providing a more mature, contemporary and holistic interpretation of ecology and the ‘natural’ world. No longer are birds simply ornaments of a wild and alien land, the natural domain and the domain of the human have become both literally and philosophically entangled.

Terra Australis showcases for the first time Fisher’s stunning Birds of New Holland folio in its complete, collated form, as well as a magnificent installation of the individual prints. Fisher’s intricately detailed and vibrant drawings are testament to the breadth of the artist’s deft technical skill across a variety of media and techniques.

Terra Australis is current until 6 May 2018.

For more details or images contact: media@australiangalleries.com.au australiangalleries.com.au 02 9360 5177