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

Seraphina Martin Workshop

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WARRINGAH PRINTMAKERS STUDIO 

sat. 7 & sun. 8 april

viscosity printing with seraphina martin

Guest artist, Seraphina Martin returns to our studio to demonstrate and teach the remarkable possibilities of viscosity colour printing. Using photopolymer plates we will explore the various ways these plates may be printed. Seraphina trained at Atelier 17 studio in Paris with Stanley William Hayter, the inventor of this technique.

Time: 10am to 4pm
Members: $300.00
Non members: $325.00 (includes Assoc.Membership)
Includes most materials
Bookings: Susan@printstudio.org.au.

Website: printstudio.org.au

Tokyo International Miniprint Exhibition 2018

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Tama Art University has organized the Tokyo International Mini-Print Triennial five times thus far, with the aims of showing the world’s latest contemporary prints and collecting scholarly data on materials, techniques, and expressions of printmaking.
For this sixth edition, we will hold an open competition in search of greater artistic and cultural diversity.
Entry period
Entry period OPENS starts at 11 AM on January 11(Thu.), 2018 (Japan time)
Entry period CLOSES at 8 PM on January 25(Thu.), 2018 (Japan time)

Works must have been produced in 2016 or later.
Each person may only submit one work.
Works must be signed and edition-numbered by the artist.
There are no restrictions on plate types or techniques used.
Works are to be on A4 size (297 x 210 mm) paper, horizontal or vertical, and the image size is to be no larger than 270 x 180 mm.
We do not accept collaborative works.
Works that soil the surrounding environment or are difficult to handle may not be accepted.

This is an open competition.
There is no fee to exhibit.
Selected works will be acquired by the Tama Art University Museum of Art and will not be returned.

http://www.tamabi.ac.jp/timpt/

Entry form here.