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Review of Borderless by Sasha Grishin in the Canberra Times

October 3, 2019 by Anthea Boesenberg Leave a Comment

Sydney Printmakers: Borderless. Megalo Print Gallery, 21 Wentworth Avenue, Kingston. Until November 2. megalo.org.

Printmaking is probably the most collaborative of all of the major art mediums. Shared facilities and shared expertise have characterised printmaking since its earliest days and many printmakers see themselves as part of an extended network of professional artists.

Roslyn Kean, Weaving Ancestral Voices II in Sydney Printmakers at Megalo. Picture: Supplied

Roslyn Kean, Weaving Ancestral Voices II in Sydney Printmakers at Megalo. Picture: Supplied

In the almost 60 years of its existence, Sydney Printmakers has included most of the major printmakers of the time and the situation has not changed.

Today, there are about 60 members in Sydney Printmakers, 33 of whom are included in this exhibition. It is an exceptionally rich and diverse show with some brilliant work.

As a sweeping generalisation, Sydney printmaking, as epitomised here, is becoming far less new-media driven and more artists focus on analogue techniques. Woodcuts, linocuts, etchings plus the occasional screenprint hold sway, while digital and inkjet prints are the exception. It may be foolhardy to leap to conclusions on the basis of this exhibition, but it appears that digital technologies are being increasingly absorbed into the toolbox of Australian printmakers rather than being seen as an end product. Many may employ computers to formulate an image but employ traditional technologies to realise the final print.

The exhibition is dominated by some brilliant and ambitious woodcuts worked on a large scale by established masters, including Roslyn Kean, Susan Rushforth, Anthea Bosenberg, Angela Hayson and Helen Mueller. Rew Hanks is represented by one of his unbelievably detailed narrative linocuts, Josephine’s Ark (2019), while Graham Marchant’s linocut, The Cranford Rose Garden (2015-18), has an intriguing complexity produced through a deceptive simplicity of means.

Seraphina Martin, Finding solace in the land, 2019 in Sydney Printmakers at Megalo. Picture: Supplied

Seraphina Martin, Finding solace in the land, 2019 in Sydney Printmakers at Megalo. Picture: Supplied

It is exciting how some of the “elders” of the printmaking tribe are branching out in new directions. Seraphina Martin’s Finding solace in the land (2019) is a light and highly evocative etching with watercolour, while Susan Baran’s huge tour de force Allure (2019) is a complex piece where she has collaged etchings and relief prints into a rippling, intricate composition.

One beauty of printmaking is its sense of intimacy through which it can convey an artist’s personality. Examples include the refined lyrical sensibility of Tanya Crothers’ collagraph Black Springs re-visited (2019), Wendy Stokes’ delicate Blended geographies (2019) combining relief, monoprint and stencil, Salvatore Gerardi’s striking Pervading memories: shadow lines (2019) or Andrew Totman’s spatially ambiguous floating monoprint, Touch (2018).

There are also some of the classics of Sydney printmaking, such as Barbara Davidson’s etching collagraph Voters and parliamentarians (2019) with its humour and brilliance of observation, and Bernhardine Mueller’s All the rivers run? (2018) with its dry humour and a created personal narrative.

Nina Juniper, Self supporting #1, 2019, in Sydney Printmakers at Megalo. Picture: Supplied

Nina Juniper, Self supporting #1, 2019, in Sydney Printmakers at Megalo. Picture: Supplied

There is a strong, punchy inkjet print by Marta Romer, Borderless (2019) and a bold, inventive screenprint by Nina Juniper, Self supporting #1 (2019), that depicts a crumbling industrial site she has screenprinted on a block of concrete. Her print conveys a range of possible readings with effective humour.

This is an exciting, adventurous exhibition that demonstrates that printmaking in Sydney is in ascendancy.

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Filed Under: Exhibitions Tagged With: analogue, Borderless, digital, Kingston, Linocut, Megalo Print Studio, Nina Juniper, printmaking, Roslyn Kean, Sasha Grishin, Seraphina Martin, woodcut

Rew Hanks at Watters Gallery

October 12, 2018 by sydprint Leave a Comment

Rew Hanks, Sunrise Over Vestrahorn, hand coloured linocut, 30x60cm, 2018
Rew’s last show at Watters Gallery will be from the 16th October until the 3rd November.
The Opening is on Wednesday 17th October from 6 to 8pm.

Filed Under: Exhibitions Tagged With: handcoloured., Linocut, Rew Hanks, Watters Gallery

Second Workshop with Gary Shinfield and Irena Conomos

December 11, 2017 by sydprint 1 Comment

 

Irena Conomos and Gary Shinfield are holding a second workshop in the Blue Mountains, from Tuesday 16th to Friday the 19th of January. This workshop will be similar to the first.

The basis of this workshop is an immersive experience responding to the environment, climatic conditions and nature in all its manifestations. Your work will be shaped by these experiences and any changes as they unfold.

From this exploration you will work independently developing your own ideas over the period of the workshop, working with two artists with many years experience in their respective fields of printmaking and photography.

Explore the Grose Valley and Blue Mountains National Park through daily excursion and research

Create through printmaking, drawing and photography

Develop your ideas in the studio.

In the workshop you will be working with multiple plates – 3 woodblocks and one piece of lino – to build a composite image or series of images. We will also explore ink painting in the landscape, the transfer of these onto blocks, etching lino, and various methods of multi plate printing.

Printmaker        Gary Shinfield   email: gary@garyshinfield.info

Photographer    Irena Conomos    email: irenaconomos@gmail.com

In this workshop you will be encouraged to explore photographically to move past the preconceived or familiar developing images using the photographs ability to reveal what is often unseen. The resulting work may remain as digital files for you to work on over time, images can be printed onsite or you can combine these with overprinting or as inspiration to draw on plates.

To receive workshop details and registration information please enquire on the above contacts. For accommodation options contact Gary Shinfield directly.

Filed Under: Workshops Tagged With: Blue Mountains, Gary Shinfield, Irena Conomos, Linocut, Mellow Bath, Photography, printmaking, residential, woodblock

Blue Mountains Summer Workshop with Gary Shinfield and Irena Conomos

December 3, 2017 by sydprint 4 Comments

A Site specific creative workshop exploring printmaking and photographyover 4 days and 3 nights from Monday January 8 to Thursday January 11, 2018  10am-4pm daily.

Printmaker        Gary Shinfield   email: gary@garyshinfield.info

Photographer    Irena Conomos    email: irenaconomos@gmail.com

Make connections with the surrounding area environment, and create in a studio in Medlow Bath.

Explorethe Grose Valley and Blue Mountains National Park through daily excursion and research

Create through printmaking, drawing and photography

Develop your ideas in the studio.

Pathways, woodcut and photopolymer print on 4 sheets of paper, UP

Gary Shinfield  2017

My recent work explores the idea of mapping journeys in the surrounding environment, and combining different printmaking techniques.

In the workshop you will be working with multiple plates – 3 woodblocks and one piece of lino – to build a composite image or series of images. We will also explore ink painting in the landscape, the transfer of these onto blocks, etching lino, and various methods of multi plate printing.

www.garyshinfield.info

Coat, Digital print Irena Conomos 2017

This image is based on a single photograph developed into a multiple, mirrored piece morphing into something organic and unknown.

In this workshop you will be encouraged to explore photographically to move past the preconceived or familiar developing images using the photographs ability to reveal what is often unseen. The resulting work may remain as digital files for you to work on over time, images can be printed onsite or you can combine these with overprinting or as inspiration to draw on plates.

The basis of this workshop is an immersive experience responding to the environment, climatic conditions and nature in all its manifestations. Your work will be shaped by these experiences and any changes as they unfold.

From this exploration you will work independently developing your own ideas over the period of the workshop, working with two artists with many years experience in their respective fields of printmaking and photography.

To receive workshop details and registration information please enquire on the above contacts. For accommodation options contact Gary Shinfield directly.

Filed Under: Workshops Tagged With: Blue Mountains, drawing, Gary Shinfield, Irena Conomos, Linocut, multiplate printing, Photography, printmaking, woodblock

Open Bite Printmakers

June 6, 2017 by sydprint Leave a Comment

Filed Under: Exhibitions Tagged With: Bondi Pavilion Gallery, collagraph, Endless Summer, Etching, Exhibition, Linocut, lithograph, mono Print, Open Bite Printmakers, screenprint., woodblock

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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