Miguel Olmo, Director of Gallery Lane Cove, warmly invites you to attend the opening of two exhibitions by Sydney Printmakers
Visible but Intangible: a print exchange portfolio
and
Unique State: a contemporary approach to printmedia
exhibitions run 23 July -9 August, 10am-4.30pm Tuesday-Frid, 10am-2.30pm Saturday
164 Lane Cove Road, Lane Cove
opening 6-8pm Wednesday 30 July
by Akky van Ogtrop
please RSVP via this link or Gallery Lane Cove website
Image: Angela Hayson “Woman in Deep Thought”
Short ‘n’ Sweet is an exhibition of prints and works on paper by members of Sydney Printmakers. It showcases many of the varied techniques of printmaking including: etching, relief, screenprint, lithography, digital, monoprint and collage processes.
Exhibition 23-27 July, 257 Enmore Road Enmore
Closing Drinks 2-4pm Sunday 27
Gallery hours 12-6pm Thurs to Sat, 12-4 pm Sunday
Exhibiting Artists: Susan Baran, Anthea Boesenberg, Janet Parker-Smith, Angela Hayson, Wendy Stokes, Roz Kean, Evan Pank, Anna Russell, Gary Shinfield, Jenny Robinson, Danielle Creenaune, : Thea Weiss, Andrew Totman, Mark Rowden, Sharon Zwi, Laura Stark, Carmen Ky, Cheryle Yin Lo, Jacqui Driver, Neilton Clarke, Therese Kenyon, Susan Rushforth, Lois Waters, Melissa Harvey, Seong Cho, Ro Murray & Helen Morgan
Ro Murray, Conglomerate I,II (detail), lino print on pianola rolls, 2025
LOCUS/LOCI
A place, a locus, as it exists in space, time and experience
GROUP SHOW
Mandy Burgess Sarah Fitzgerald Jan Handel Ro Murray Lisa Woolfe
7 – 29 June 2025
Articulate Project Space
Opening hours 11am – 5pm Fri – Sun, 497 Parramatta Road Leichhardt
Opening drinks 3 – 5pm Saturday June 7
Artist Talks 2pm June 22
Closing drinks 3 – 5pm Sunday 29
The State Library of NSW
Ro Murray, SCROLL VI lino print on pianola roll, 2024
SCROLL VI was selected for the Artists Book Awards Manly Library 2025, and has been acquired by the State Library of NSW. The work included excerpts from William Hovell’s journal on the overland journey from Lake George to Port Phillip in 1824, with Hamilton Hume and six convicts.
The Basil Sellers Art Prize is an acquisitive biennial award celebrating artistic excellence and supporting creative practitioners. Offering a prize pool of over $30,000 our prize champions 2D artworks in traditional mediums of painting, drawing, and printmaking (unique state).
Finalists from across Australia are eligible for the coveted $25,000 acquisitive award generously supported by Mr. Basil Sellers AM. The Eurobodalla Prize offers $5,000 in recognition of an outstanding local entry.
At the Bas, we recognise the significant investment of time, energy, money, and skill artists pour into art prizes even before their work is selected for exhibition. With this understanding, we are dedicated to making our prize as artist-friendly as possible. We acknowledge that exceptional art knows no boundaries. Artists from any background or region across Australia are encouraged to enter regardless of industry experience or prominence.
Make sure you read the terms and conditions before submitting your entry.
Photograph by Neilton Clarke of UNSW (AMCAE / City Art Institute / COFA) art students protest march through Hyde Park to CBD against earmarked introduction of student fees, c.1980-81.
Drawing on material from UNSW Records & Archives, Protests & Pranks traces a history of student-led protests and Foundation Day pranks at UNSW. The exhibition features posters, photos, videos, oral histories, and protest ephemera, including badges, t-shirts, and pamphlets.
Some of us might recognise ourselves in these photographs!
When:
26 February – 14 June 2024
Where:
Level 5 Main Library
Law Library
Paddington Library
Partner:
UNSW Records & Archives
Protests & Pranks, for the first time, will span all three UNSW Libraries. At UNSW Main Library, the exhibition shifts between global and hyperlocal protest movements. Protests & Pranks reveals how students mobilise to effect change, from the worldwide campaigns against the Vietnam War to student demonstrations in response to university policies. UNSW Law Library features tactical frivolity, the playful, non-compliant side of student resistance that manifested in pranks and stunts designed to provoke and challenge authority. The display at UNSW Paddington Library contains materials from recent climate rallies and political demonstrations to show how students utilise protests as a form of activism to bring about reform.
The exhibition features photos, videos, oral histories, newspaper clippings, and protest ephemera, including posters, badges, and pamphlets. These materials help to piece together the shared concerns, movements, and cultural identity of UNSW.
Accessibility: UNSW Main Library, UNSW Law Library, and UNSW Paddington Library are wheelchair accessible. The exhibition will include large-text artwork labels and booklets, audio-described guides, and braille exhibition guides.
Here are some images from the Opening of Sydney Printmakers exhibition ORIGIN at the Glasshouse, Port Macquarie. Above, Wendy Stokes preparing for the installation of her huge work, Guardians of Place.
Below, some photographs from the Opening event. The work looked great in the space. I will add further photos as they arrive.
Please Note: The opening at Gang Gang Gallery has been postponed until the following Saturday 12 March 1 – 4 pm.
Roz Kean has fixed a couple of omissions/errors in her video. Here is the finished video.
Only six days to go to see this impressive exhibition!
Splash page image: Nathalie Hartog-Gautier, Looking for Paradise, Handmade raw cotton paper in collaboration with Darren Simpson from Creative Paper Tasmania and Penelope Lee, 12 books, unique state.
How does your work address the theme ‘To the Edges’?
For myself, this has been a very apposite theme for a number of reasons. The initial reason being direct experience of the bush fires in 2019/2020. I live on a hundred acres in remote NSW South Coast and watched the sky turn a livid brown and the sun turn an angry orange as the flames from the Currowan Fires crept closer, until we were surrounded and parts of our land a-flame. Myself, husband, dog, were literally ‘on edge’ for days and nights with fire hoses out, water pumps on and waking every couple of hours through the night to check that fallen and smoking trees had not re-ignited and started a fresh fire. So the first piece in the trio deals with this aspect of the theme.
The second piece ‘Chaos’ suggests that humanity’s greed, carelessness and poor behaviour has lead to chaos and disaster – a theme influenced by Mario Vargas Llosa’s book ‘The Storyteller’ – and here we see flood, fire, calamity inflicted on the world. Finally, man’s poor environmental record has brought man and planet to the edge of extinction – sea levels have risen and imagined, monstrous sea creatures dominate …
Can you describe the technical process you went through to achieve the finished work and what technical challenges you encountered along the way?
Technically, the pieces were reasonably straight-forward, any difficulties tended to be in cutting the detail and ensuring clarity. Perhaps my choice of fibrous Japanese Unryu paper – chosen because I felt the woody fibres would enhance the message of the pieces – did make it harder to get solid blacks where I really needed them and as a result I did end up printing them all by hand.
What do you see as the role of Sydney Printmakers for the next 60 years?
Like other successful printmaking groups, we can show the great expressive possibilities of our craft, the wonderful images that can be achieved using only print techniques; that printmaking skills are great tools for everyone to use either alone or in combination with other media.
How do you see the role of printmaking in general, contributing to the conversation about contemporary art practice.
Printmaking utilises numerous flexible and dynamic tools and can probably lead or assist art practice to move in a multitude of directions.
