Sydney printmaker member Janet Parker Smith is having a solo show
THIS WILD RIDE
at M. Contemporary, 15-19 Boundary St Darlinghurst
Exhibition runs from 28 May to 13 June
Opening night 5-7pm 4 June
Artist talk 2.30pm 30 May
Members of Sydney Printmakers selected for the Burnie Print Prize 2025 include Anthea Boesenberg, Carolyn Craig, Jacqui Driver, Roslyn Kean, Janet Parker Smith and Gary Shinfield. New members Melissa Harvey and Lois Waters have also been selected.
Congratulations to all!
The work in this installation reconfigures found materials from our urban landscape and repurposes prints from the artists collection from over the past 30 years. Look and you might see recognisable materials from everyday life that have been transformed into new creatures, objects and forms.
Using different art forms including collage, printmaking, digital print, ceramics, knitting and textiles combined with chattels from the everyday, these materials come together to create an artwork known as the ‘Wicked Garden’. Showing a flight of imagination it looks at ideas around our changing environment, friendships and adapting to new surroundings.
About Janet Parker-Smith
Janet Parker-Smith has a cross disciplinary process using Printmedia, sculpture and collage to create her work. She has been exhibiting nationally and internationally for over 30 years. Janet is well known as a local arts worker and also is a sessional teacher at the National Art School and Sydney Collage of the Arts.
Artist talks
Janet Parker-Smith In Conversation Saturday 9 December 11am
Visit the Ridge Street Window Gallery, 43 Ridge Street, North Sydney 7 days per week until 10pm.
Artists reimagine our urban landscape.
Cities Foretold is a Council curated contemporary art exhibition which reimagines the Chatswood CBD and the future of all cities in general. Part of the Emerge Festival, this exhibition focusses on ideas relating to how future cityscapes will look and function. More than just a physical imprint on a map, cities are places where we converge, live, work and connect. As the world faces unprecedented rates of urban expansion, issues such as Climate Change and social and economic inequalities have been brought into sharp focus. As these challenges arise, we need to create a new vision for the urban landscape and the way in which cities operate. Featuring installation, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, video, technology-based art and temporary public art, this group of artists re-think the role of cities in the future.
The exhibition also includes a community-based program, the Emerge Willoughby Map Project. Join artist Janet Parker-Smith for weekend drop-in workshops to learn about printmaking and to contribute to a bas relief version of the Emerge Willoughby Map.
A Willoughby City Council curated group exhibition, presented in partnership with Emerge Festival 2022.
The exhibition will take place across Art Space on The Concourse and The Concourse Outdoor Area.
ARTISTS: Louise Allerton, Tracey Clement, Kalanjay Dhir, ek.1 (Emma Hicks and Katie Louise Williams), Zachariah Fenn, Sarah Fitzgerald, Karen Lee and Janet Parker-Smith.
This work has also been selected by the Print Council for its 2022 Print Commission.
Janet Parker Smith is a finalist in this award. Congratulations, Janet!
Artists were invited to create works that respond to Meroogal and its sense of place. In their selection of finalists from hundreds of entries, our judges looked for artworks that cast new light on the stories of the people who lived here, and the house’s rich and diverse collection of treasures.
The work of the 40 finalists will be exhibited in the historic house of Meroogal from 19 September 2020 to 17 April 2021.
Winners will be announced on 23 September 2020.
Members Evan Pank, Janet Parker Smith and Ben Rak have images in Megalo’s Screen on Paper Online Exhibition.
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 20 March – 7 April
11am – 5pm, Wednesday to Friday 11am – 4pm, Saturday and Sunday Art Space on The Concourse
Representing the work of 40 artists from Sydney Printmakers, this exhibition presents an individualistic mix of prints and objects, with themes including social and political commentary, imagination of the artist and the Australian environment.
ART CRAWL: 21 March, 10am – 12.30pm.
ART MONTH SYDNEY’S NORTH SHORE ART TOUR: Saturday 30 March Sydney Printmaker’s PRINTMAKING DEMONSTRATION & LIGHT LUNCH 2.30pm – 3.00pm FIND OUT MORE >>
Image Credits: Janet Parker-Smith, The Vanishing Point, 2016, 6 colour screenprint |
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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.
