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Waverley Woollahra Art School Printmaking Prize 2022

June 2, 2022 by Anthea Boesenberg Leave a Comment

The Waverley Woollahra Art School Printmaking Prize is open for entries.

Waverley Woollahra Art School invites you to enter our 2022 Printmaking Prize. The Prize is designed to celebrate printmakers and their craft in all its many forms. Digital and traditional printmakers are encouraged to enter.

Prizes include:

  • $1000 – Digital Printmaking Prize
  • $1000 – Traditional Printmaking Prize

Entries open on Friday 3 June 2022 and close Midnight Friday 29 July 2022.

Here is the entry form.

Filed Under: Call for Entries, Print Prizes Tagged With: call for entries, digital prints, Printmaking Prize, Traditional prints, Waverley Woollahra Art School

Getting to know our Members: Sharon Zwi

October 3, 2021 by Anthea Boesenberg Leave a Comment

Sharon Zwi at her photography exhibition, Time Exposures: 60 Life Portraits, 2013.

Sharon was born in Apartheid South Africa, studied at Reading University and The Slade, University of London, and immigrated to Australia in 1982.

She is primarily a Printmaker, although she also paints and does black and white photography. Her work is representational and it is about issues, some private and some public. She tries to depict universal issues by showing them from her personal viewpoint. Her prints are influenced by her black and white photography and by old photographs. Her photographs are influenced by printmaking and painting concerns.

She has been a member of the Sydney Printmakers since 1994, exhibiting with them at least annually. She has had a few one person photography exhibitions, the last being Time Exposures: 60 Life Portraits in 2013.

You can see Sharon’s work on the Artists page at https://sydneyprintmakers.com.au/portfolio/sharon-zwi/

Here, Sharon talks about her practice :

I work in both photography and printmaking and the two feed on, and influence, each other. In more recent times I have been using a tablet and drawing onto a screen with a stylus. I have the images printed by a master printer with whom I discuss the best way to print my work, and which archival paper to use. Sometimes I work in purely in printmaking; other times purely with photography; and sometimes I combine both streams of my work.

Mostly, my work is about people, but visiting Oratunga Station, in the Flinders Ranges, in 2019 when I participated in the JMCCCP (JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice Winter School), gave me an opportunity to work on landscape images. The landscape of the Flinders Ranges was very different from the coastal and city landscapes I’m more familiar with, and this inspired me to try a very different kind of work, which I am still experimenting with.

Sharon Zwi - Oratunga Station Flinders Ranges
Oratunga Station Flinders Ranges, 2019, archival ink print, 65 x 46cm.

Photoshop allows me to work in a very similar way to that of screen printing, especially when I use layers. I can get a huge range of effects, textures, and colours with Photoshop, and use a range of drawing or painting ‘tools’ which give a vast range of mark making effects. It is not a mechanistic way of working, and I do not use the ‘special effects’, which can give a uniform feel. It is no more mechanistic or ‘tricksy’ than any other method of printmaking, despite some peoples’ argument that it is. It is a modern printmaking method that I employ and experiment with, and I find it suits the work I am trying to make.

Sharon Zwi, three stages of a work in progress.

Filed Under: Artist Portfolio, Artist's Talk Tagged With: black and whitephotography, digital prints, Flinders Ranges, Landscapes, Oratunga Station, Photography, Photoshop, representational, Sharon Zwi

Sydney Printmakers celebrate 55 years

February 8, 2016 by Anthea Boesenberg 1 Comment

Hopefully this will be easier to read, thank you to those who alerted me to the difficulty with the last post.

Sydney Printmakers Celebrating 55 Years

Artsite Gallery would like to invite you and your friends to join the Sydney Printmakers    for the Official Opening of this exhibition by Emeritus Professor Sasha Grishin AM, FAHA, on Sunday 6th March  at 3pm

Preview and purchase from 11am Saturday 5th March
Exhibition continues to 27th March 2016

Artsite Gallery
Open 11am to 5pm Wednesday to Sunday
165 Salisbury Road, cnr St Marys Street, Camperdown.

Filed Under: Exhibitions Tagged With: 55 years, Artsite Gallery, Chippendale, digital prints, Etching, installation, limited edition prints, Linocut, printmaking, Sasha Grishin, screen printing, Sydney Printmakers, woodcut

Sydney Printmakers at Artsite Gallery

February 7, 2016 by sydprint 7 Comments

55 years of Sydney Printmakers

Filed Under: Exhibitions Tagged With: 55 years, Artist Gallery, Chippendale, digital prints, Etching, installation, Linocut, printmaking, screen printing, Sydney Printmakers, woodcut

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