Member News: Sandi Rigby’s Powerful Owls Have Been Acquired by the State Library

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Sandy Edwards, Mapping the Powerful Owl, box of 11 etchings

The NSW State Library has purchased Sandi Rigby’s box of 11 etchings of Powerful Owls. Sandi said the etchings were started in 2012, for a project to fight a development that was going to knock down part of a local Blue Gum Forest, the habitat for a pair of Powerful Owls. Sandi monitored the pair over a season, and was rewarded with sighting of their chicks. Powerful Owls are listed as “vulnerable”.

The box contained the story and a drawing of the area in habituated by the owls. The Library hopes to put them in an exhibition next year for recent acquisitions.

Listen to the call of the Powerful Owl and other birds

A Poetry of Ideas in Print by members of Sydney Printmakers @Art Space on The Concourse

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Coming Soon: An exhibition from Sydney Printmakers at Art Space on The Concourse, Chatswood.

Representing the work of forty artists from Sydney Printmakers, this exhibition presents an individualistic mix of prints and objects, some of which are centred on social and political commentary, the imagination of the artist, and the Australian environment.

20th March to & 7th April 2019

Opening Event: Saturday 23rd March, 3pm – 5pm

Hours: Wednesday to Friday, 11am – 5pm

Saturday and Sunday, 11am – 4pm

Image Credits: Thea Weiss, A Fleeting Breeze (Kalamina Gorge), 2015, Caustic Soda Etching on Lino on various supports, 70cmH x 50cmW.

Sandi Rigby, Dinner for Two, 2015, Etching, 59cmH x 57cmW