Sydney Printmakers

Promotion of Australian printmaking and members work.

  • About Us
  • Exhibitions
  • Artists
  • News Blog
  • Contact Us

Megalo: Relief Online Exhibition

April 5, 2022 by Anthea Boesenberg Leave a Comment

Submissions are open for Relief, our next online exhibition.  This exhibition is open to national and international artists working with relief printmaking techniques and processes such as woodcut, linocut, and wood engraving. Artists can submit one work, per exhibition. Works submitted must have been completed after January 2020 to be considered. Artists will be contacted a week prior to the exhibition commencing to notify them on the outcome of their submission.

Selected works will be exhibited online 1 June – 31 August 2022.

Submissions are open now via the Megalo website. Click here for details.
APPLY HERE

Filed Under: Call for Exhibitors, Exhibitions, Online Exhibitions Tagged With: call for entries, Megalo Print Studio, Online Exhibition, relief Printmaking

Megalo Print Studio: Online International Screen Print Exhibition

July 8, 2021 by Anthea Boesenberg Leave a Comment

 


To see the exhibition, go HERE

Megalo’s Screen Print Online Exhibition showcases the work of thirty international contemporary printmakers. Works selected for this exhibition have been produced with screen printing as the primary technique on a variety of materials, such as paper and fabric, as well as non-traditional materials such as wood and concrete.

Ben Rak, Member of Sydney Printmakers, is one of the participants. This work can also be seen at Manly Art Gallery in Sydney Printmakers 60th Anniversary Exhibition, ‘To the Edges’, though the gallery is currently closed due to Covid restrictions.

Other artists participating in Megalo’s Online Exhibition are :

I 

Filed Under: Exhibitions, Online Exhibitions Tagged With: 60th Anniversary Exhibition, Ben Rak, international, MAG&M, Megalo Print Studio, Online Exhibition, Screen Print, Sydney Printmakers, To The Edges

Megalo Intaglio Online Exhibition Call for Entries

June 4, 2021 by Anthea Boesenberg Leave a Comment

INTAGLIO ONLINE EXHIBITION 2021: SUBMISSIONS CLOSE MONDAY 28 JUNE

Megalo is now taking submissions for our fourth online exhibition for 2021 celebrating the art of intaglio.  To be eligible works must incorporate intaglio processes, such as drypoint, etching or aquatint. 

This exhibition is free to enter and now open to national and international artists.  Artists may submit one work with a high-res image through the Megalo Print Studio website portal before 5pm Monday 28 June.

For terms and conditions and to submit your work, head to the Megalo website.

Filed Under: Call for Entries, Exhibitions, Online Exhibitions Tagged With: aquatint, call for entries., dry point, Etching, intaglio, Megalo Print Studio, Online Exhibition

Roslyn Kean @ Megalo Review

May 23, 2021 by Anthea Boesenberg Leave a Comment

Ros has received a wonderful review from Sasha Grishin in the Canberra Times for her Exhibition at Megalo.

https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7256546/complex-and-astounding-stillness/

 

Filed Under: Exhibitions Tagged With: Canberra Times, Defining Shapes - Creating Edges, Exhibition, Megalo Print Studio, review, Roslyn Kean, Sasha Grishin

Roslyn Kean @ Megalo: Artist’s Talk

May 5, 2021 by Anthea Boesenberg Leave a Comment

Filed Under: Artist's Talk, Exhibitions Tagged With: Artist's Talk, Canberra, Megalo Print Studio, Roslyn Kean

Relief Printing Online Exhibition 2021, Megalo Print Studio

April 20, 2021 by Anthea Boesenberg Leave a Comment

RELIEF ONLINE EXHIBITION 2021
13 April – 22 MayRelief Online Exhibition 2021 features the work of thirty artists working with relief both nationally and internationally.  This is our second online exhibition for the year and celebrates relief printmaking.  All works have been completed with relief printmaking techniques, such as linocut, woodcut and Mokuhanga. 

 

 Roslyn Kean has a work in this online exhibition. Go HERE to see the exhibition.

 

Filed Under: Exhibitions, Online Exhibitions, Uncategorized Tagged With: Megalo Print Studio, Mokuhanga, online, relief printing, Roslyn Kean

Screen on Paper Exhibition from Megalo Online now.

June 24, 2020 by Anthea Boesenberg Leave a Comment

Members Evan Pank, Janet Parker Smith and Ben Rak have images in Megalo’s Screen on Paper Online Exhibition.

–
EXHIBITION ONLINE FROM 23 JUNE – 25 JULY 2020
VIEW ONLINE EXHIBITION

Filed Under: Exhibitions Tagged With: Ben Rak, Evan Pank, Janet Parker Smith, Megalo Print Studio, Online Exhibition, Screen on Paper, Screen Print

Apply Now – Megalo Online Exhibitions

April 16, 2020 by Anthea Boesenberg Leave a Comment

Today’s the day! Megalo is launching an exciting range of dynamic print focused online exhibitions. Each curated exhibition will highlight a different print medium, relief, screen on paper, intaglio, lithography and screen on fabric. Below you can find out more about each exhibition and how to take part. This opportunity is open to both national and international artists.  
Our first exhibition will be a Relief exhibition and the deadline for submissions is 5pm Monday 4th May. Works can be made using any of the relief processes such as woodcut, linocut, wood engraving etc. as the primary medium.
We are aware that many printmakers are unable to currently access their normal printing spaces and studios. With this in mind, all work submitted to the exhibition can be from January 2019 onwards. You can find out more information by visiting our website or through the links below! 

Relief Online Exhibition – Submission Deadline 5pm Monday 4th May 
Apply Now

 

Screen on Paper Online Exhibition – Submission Deadline 5pm Monday 15th June
Apply Now

 

Intaglio Online Exhibition – Submission Deadline 5pm Monday 27th July
Apply Now

 

Lithography Online Exhibition – Submission Deadline 5pm Monday 7th September
Apply Now

 

 

Screen on Fabric Online Exhibition – Submission Deadline 5pm Monday 19th October
Apply Now

Filed Under: Call for Entries, Exhibitions, Online Exhibitions Tagged With: call for entries, Fabric, intaglio, lithography, Megalo Print Studio, Online Exhibitions, paper, relief, Screen Print

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.

  • FACEBOOKSHARE
  • TWITTERTWEET
  • EMAIL

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

The Opening of Borderless at Megalo Print Studio

October 1, 2019 by Anthea Boesenberg Leave a Comment

Sydney Printmakers who ventured to Canberra for the opening of our exhibition at Megalo had a wonderful time.  Alison Alder, past Director of Megalo, opened the exhibition, and Susan Baran talked about the history of Sydney Printmakers. Here are some photos from the Opening, and from the party afterwards at Mark Lewis and Dianne Fogwell’s place. The pizza oven got a good workout. Thanks to all at Megalo and especially to Dianne for such warm and generous hospitality. We even had a peek inside Dianne’s studio.

Filed Under: Exhibitions Tagged With: A.C.T., Alison Alder, Boundless, Canberra, Dianne Fogwell, intaglio, Kingston, Mark Lewis, Megalo Print Studio, Opening, relief, woodblock

  • 1
  • 2
  • Next Page »

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 602 other subscribers.

Recent Posts

  • New Exhibitions including members: Susan Baran
  • Print Council of Australia’s Biennial Print Exchange
  • Participate in Compact Prints 2022 with Umbrella Studio
  • International Mini Print Cantabria 2022 Call for Entries
  • Waverley Woollahra Art School Printmaking Prize 2022

Recent Comments

  • Harry Martinez Diaz on International Print Biennale Call for Entries.
  • Anthea Boesenberg on International Print Biennale Call for Entries.
  • Harry Martinez Diaz on International Print Biennale Call for Entries.
  • Anthea Boesenberg on OMNIA Art Prize 2022
  • Fiona Gladigau on OMNIA Art Prize 2022

Archives

Categories

Copyright © 2022 Sydney Printmakers :: Promotion of Australian printmaking and members work.