Our members Helen Mueller, Helen Best, Barbara Davidson, Susan Baran, and Nathalie Hartog-Gautier have books in this show. You can see the show online here.
A curated group exhibition of contemporary Tasmanian printmakers curated by Helen Mueller and Melissa Smith
1 – 31 July 2021
CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS
ANTONIA AITKEN • RAYMOND ARNOLD • LEX PALMER BULL • TIM COAD • REBECCA COOTE • MINDY DORÉ • JAN HOGAN • JENNIFER MARSHALL • OLIVIA MORONEY • HELEN MUELLER • JONATHAN PARTRIDGE • NATASHA ROWELL • MICHAEL SCHLITZ • MELISSA SMITH
Image: Helen Mueller, and the forest was still 2 2021, layered woodblock prints, red ochre, ink wash – unframed diptych, 79 x 47.5cm
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“Since coming to live in Tasmania in mid-2020, I am heeding the call to be in forests. I walk them near my home and I paddle along their shore lines, sometimes along rivers and into the wilderness that harbours rare and ancient trees. I am but a beginner student, pondering the secrets of such places. I am awed by their ancient majesty and deeply held history.
And I know of threats to these places, ones that grow from modern human habitation and a new culture unschooled in the nurture of such holy spaces. The forest has no voice that we have learned to hear and understand. It can be but still. These woodblock prints are the first I’ve made since coming here and the first in a series to help me understand the fragility and melancholic beauty of what we may well lose.”
— HELEN MUELLER, 2021
vanishing, 2019
9 layered woodblock prints in three panels
83 x195 cm framed
Mangrove ecosystems are critical to our shorelines. They form a buffer between land and water, providing protection from erosion and filtering runoff. They are primary sea life nurseries and host a myriad of creatures essential to the health of shorelines. They are highly efficient carbon sinks. Chronic pressures on these environments from land clearing, the use of herbicides and pesticides, global warming and associated drought and severe storms are endangering them with potentially catastrophic consequences for the health of land and sea and ultimately humans.
I spent time working with a citizens’ science project that monitors the mangrove forests of the Daintree in far North Queensland. I had the privilege of venturing into a terrain where humans do not routinely go and to viscerally experience an environment of gritty beauty and intricate interrelationships. This work is one of a series of works I made in response to the mystery, majesty and fragility of these forests. The damage caused to this environment is ongoing and palpable. I wanted to capture both the sense of threat and the beautiful fragility that I witnessed.
Four members of Sydney printmakers have had their work selected for this award: Neilton Clarke, Salvatore Gerardi, Carolyn McKenzie Craig and Helen Mueller. Congratulations to all.
To view the 2020 Libris Awards illustrated catalogue of finalists please click here
Helen Mueller and Gary Shinfield have work in this show.
Congratulations to the members of Sydney Printmakers who had works selected for the APT Print Award:
Rew Hanks, Roslyn Kean, Michael Kempson, Helen Mueller, Janet Parker Smith and Anne Starling.
And for The APT Emerging Artists Award:
Olivia Wilson.
