I was delighted to speak at Carmel Wallace’s survey exhibition Printed in Portland at Portland Bay Press in south-west Victoria over the weekend. Exhibition is current until 2 October, 2016. Opening remarks below. It’s always fascinating to hear about an artist’s personal creative journey, and the pathways they have followed to find their artistic voice. … Continue reading
GLOW Australia printmaking December 3rd 2015 – 16th January 2016 The Framing Salon 10 Dartmouth Rd, Forest Hill, London, SE23 3XU In this exhibition at The Framing Salon, London, 47 Australian artists working from two printmaking studios at opposite ends of Australia have a produced a diverse collection prints in various techniques. These works make their UK … Continue reading
Bronwyn Rees’ new exhibition at Firestation Print Studio, Opening Thursday 19th November – 28th November. Essay as appears in ArtView, November 2015. Over the past 15 years of creative practice, Bronwyn Rees has focused on making richly textured prints that express her particular vision of Australia’s landscape and wilderness areas. Evoking the inherent beauty of … Continue reading
Over the past year I have been working with Stag & Bow and The Framing Salon, two unique businesses in South East London that are all about reviving craft based skills from a grass roots level. Pascale Spall and Cyrus Colquitt founded Stag & Bow nearly five years ago at 8 Dartmouth Rd in Forest … Continue reading
Imprints of Place Limited edition prints from Australia and Ireland Current until 11th January, 2015 The Framing Salon 10 Dartmouth Rd, Forest Hill, London SE23 3XU @theframingsalon This diverse exhibition features over 100 limited edition prints, skillfully hand-crafted by artists working from three separate print studios in Australia and Ireland. Artists from Firestation Print Studio, Melbourne; PressNorth … Continue reading
“The artist produces scenes that are like sheets of stone, whether these be jagged cliff faces or crumbling stone structures. Ostensibly revealing broad vistas, Segers’ landscapes instead form a stony wall of impenetrable material, confounding view with picture plane. The viewer is not meant to enter these spaces.”[1] And yet enter we do, into Segers’ … Continue reading
I was happy to be invited to open an exhibition of etchings by talented emerging artist Rachael Ness, at the Firestation Print Studio on Thursday 5th of September…. here are some images from the show and my intro talk. In this exhibition Rachael Ness has created an impressive set of large format etchings and monotypes … Continue reading
Independent Print 14th – 31st August, 2013 A group showcase of independently operated Presses and Print Workshops around Melbourne. Opening Thursday 15th August, 6.00 – 8.00pm @ Firestation Print Studio. Melbourne is a creative town filled with creative practitioners. But, there aren’t a huge amount of opportunities for such practitioners to make a living doing … Continue reading
In this series of multifaceted etchings and drypoints by Bronwyn Rees, the Australian bush becomes a space riddled with unfolding narratives and symbolic cues. In these prints sensual pleasure, emotional fortitude, threatening darkness, and paranormal occurrence are all bound together by the twisted yet pervasive beauty found within our forests, lakes and scrublands. While the … Continue reading
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