Great opportunity to
support a locally-funded
microplastics-pollution research project
Associate Professor Sophie Leterme's project How much plastic is in our ocean? is wonderful mix of important science and art. Sophie is crowdfunding independent scientific research with a Pozible campaign, backed up by an exhibition at The Wheatsheaf Hotel, to fund a survey of the waters along South Australia's coastline from Ceduna to Port Macdonnell. Not content to teach and research at Flinders University, Sophie is also an excellent emerging printmaker and Instagram's Microplastics Warrior.
To find out more, and support this excellent research... please click here.
There is just over a week to help Sophie get this great project off the ground.
If you can, please share the news and/or donate.
And if you or your school would like to help in any way, please email Sophie here.
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Community Steamroller Print Event...
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6 Manton St Hindmarsh - Sun 28 April 2019
Who: Anyone interested in printmaking & community fun!
When: 11am-3pm, in 1hr sessions, Sun 28 Apr 2019
Venue: 6 Manton St, Hindmarsh SA
Tickets: $5 per person
Bookings essential: through Eventbrite
Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/community-steamroller-print-event-tickets-59419516373
On Sunday 28 April 2019 join in the fun as we ink and print a giant lino block with a road roller in the carpark at 6 Manton St Hindmarsh during our inaugural community print event.
For weeks, printmakers from around Adelaide and South Australia have been enthusiastically carving small lino blocks especially for us ... And we've been combining these small art works to make one giant lino print about the suburb of Hindmarsh.
'Steamroller printing' is fantastic fun. Around the world, printmakers use old steamrollers, road rollers, cricket pitch rollers and water drums to print large-scale relief blocks, made from anything from linoleum, to salvaged plywood and the recycled floors of old gymnasiums.
You are invited to enjoy the spectacle by reserving your place in one of the four viewing sessions on Sunday 28 April: 11am-12noon, 12noon-1pm, 1pm-2pm or 2-3pm. Places are limited, so please get in quick.
Tickets cost $5 per person. Primary aged kids (and younger) are free, but must be accompanied by their adult at all times. Tickets through Eventbrite.
Unique, hand-printed tea towels can be pre-ordered with your Eventbrite registration (see Additional Items at the bottom of the checkout page) or on the day. From late-May, tea towels will also be available for purchase through Pony & Cole cafe and Union St Printmakers. (Funds generated by tea towel sales will support next year's event.)
Proudly supported by Stone & Quoin Studio, Union St Printmakers, Pony & Cole cafe and Koush Design.
Sponsored by the City of Charles Sturt's Westside Placemakers program.
Road roller generously provided by Coates Hire.
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Exhibitions Opening Soon...
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Bittondi Open Studio
Who: Anyone interested in printmaking (always the last Sunday of each month)
Next: 12pm-4pm, Sun 28 Apr 2019
Following: 12pm-4pm, Sun 26 May 2019
Venue: Bittondi PrIntmakers Association Inc, Aberfoyle Park SA
Click here for more information.
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ACCUMULATE
Matt Brown
Opens: 6pm Wed 1 May. Until Sat 18 May 2019.
ACCUMULATE examines the non-authoritative potential of information systems with an installation/archive of hand-rendered and printed materials. Brown's archive is a taxonomy of visual data; ambient pieces of image and text which have been retrieved from the digital plane and then stored in physical formats. He is interested in the ambiguities created by grouping data, and how this challenges the homogenized ways we receive and consume information today.
FELTspace: 12 Compton St, Adelaide CBD
Click for more information or go to the gallery website.
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Out of Context
Jorji Gardener
Opens: 6pm Fri 3 May. Until Sun 26 May 2019.
Out of Context is a collaboration between artist and archaeologist, delving into the layers and stories from the mid-nineteenth century Irish community at Baker’s Flat, Kapunda, and the process of archaeology at work. Come and enjoy a glimpse into another world and experience a core sample of history.
Mrs Harris' Shop: 36 Jervois Street, Torrensville SA
Download the invitation or click here for more information.
*A SA History Month event.
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Bowerbird Design Market:
UStP Print Pod
Union St Printmakers & friends
10am-5pm Sun 5 May 2019.
International Print Day in May is the first weekend in May. To celebrate, Union St Printmakers will demonstrate different print processes in the UStP Print Pod at Bowerbird Design Market. It’s the perfect time to see a printmaker at work and ask questions about different print processes.
Please note, International Print Day in May is Sat 4 May, however, the UStP Print Pod will be demonstrating on Sun 5 May 2019.
Venue: Bowerbird Design Market, Wayville Pavillion, The Showgrounds, Wayville SA
Click for more about Union St Printmakers & Bowerbird Design Market.
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Being Home
Bridgitte Willaims & Ellie Weckert
When: May to Jul 2019.
For Bridgitte Williams, ‘being home’ conjures up images of her father’s chair, the hands of a loved one, the places we can discuss big issues and feel safe, and a deep connection to the landscape of her birth. Williams has combined these ideas to create ‘snapshots’ that she might hang on a wall, to make wherever she is feel more like home.
Home is both where you find it, and somewhere deep within the heart.
Venue: Pink Heart Gallery, Women’s and Children’s Hospital, 72 King William Rd, North Adelaide SA
(the Pink Heart Gallery is on Level 2, Zone D, near the Hospital Cafe, on the way to the Women’s area)
Click for the WCH website.
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In the Neighbourhood
Kyoko Imazu
Opening night: 6pm Thurs 13 Jun. Until Sun 21 Jul 2019.
Kyoko Imazu's recent prints and small sculptural works explore our overlooked neighbours such as the weeds, bugs and pebbles that fill our everyday lives.
West Gallery Thebarton: 32 West Thebarton Road, Thebarton SA
Click to go to the WGT website.
It Came Like Light Out of The Walls
Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Opening night: 6pm Thurs 13 Jun. Until Sun 21 Jul 2019.
Gracia Haby and Louise Jennison are besotted with paper for its adaptable, foldable, cut-able, concealable, revealing nature.
West Gallery Thebarton: 32 West Thebarton Road, Thebarton SA
Click to go to the WGT website.
* Kyoko, Gracia & Louise's exhibitions are a must see. Do google Kyoko and fall in love with her magical, intimate worlds... And I've been collecting Gracia & Louise's zines for years; they are marvellous. Can't wait for these two exhibitions! -Ed.
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SMALL THINGS
Katie Kitchen
Opens: 6pm Fri 5 Jul. Until Sun 28 Jul 2019.
A beautiful exhibition of drawings and watercolours by Katie Kitchen, based on her September 2018 project, “a one inch drawing a day”.
Mrs Harris' Shop: 36 Jervois Street, Torrensville SA
Click to go to the gallery website.
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William Kentridge: That which we do not remember
Opens: Sat 6 Jul. Until Sun 8 Sept 2019.
William Kentridge: That which we do not remember is an exhibition curated by the artist himself, tracing the arc of his thirty-year career in South Africa. Described as one of the most powerful voices in art today, Kentridge emerged as an artist during the apartheid regime in South Africa. This exhibition draws connections between the myriad aspects of his work including drawing, collage, stop-motion animation, performance, theatre, tapestry and sculpture. Memory, its excavation and erasure, lies at the heart of Kentridge’s practice: ‘One understands that there is a very narrow band of memory in which we can survive. If we forget everything, as in a kind of dementia or Alzheimer’s, it’s very difficult to function in the world. But if we remember everything, we’re also paralysed by trauma, by memory.’
Art Gallery of South Australia: North Tce, Adelaide CBD
Galleries: 22, 23, 24, 25
Click to go to the AGSA website.
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Galleries PDF
Click for a PDF of the galleries that appear in this newsletter.
There are so many printmaking, photographic, drawing and textile exhibitions out there… Do get in touch if you know of a good exhibition to share.
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Mollymook (multi-colour reduction lino print with stencil rolls), by this month's feature artist, Sophie Leterme.
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Exhibitions About To Close
Time's up. These exhibitions are closing soon, and they might just be the ones you didn't want to miss...
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Ways of Seeing: Recent Acquisitions
Until Mon 22 Apr 2019
This display features recent acquisitions to the Art Gallery of South Australia collection, including prints, drawing, photography, painting, decorative arts and artist’s books.
Ways of Seeing presents for the first time Helen Frankenthaler’s Madame Butterfly, 2000, a stunning colour woodcut printed from 46 woodblocks.
Frankenthaler was inspired to work in the woodcut medium after seeing ukiyo-e prints (‘pictures of the floating world’) while travelling in Japan. She transformed the possibilities of the medium by creating delicate wash affects with the assistance of the American master printer, Kenneth Tyler.
Other works in the display include artist books by Ed Ruscha, prints by Fred Williams, photographs by Andreas Gursky, Bill Henson and Tracey Moffatt, and a program of moving image works donated by Rick and Jan Frolich.
Art Gallery of South Australia: North Tce, Adelaide CBD
Galleries: 9, 10 & 11
Click to go to the AGSA website.
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Last Summer
Until Wed 24 Apr 2019
Group show. Includes prints by Hanah Williams.
Adelaide City Library: Rundle Place, 77-91 Rundle Mall, Adelaide CBD
For more information email Hanah Williams.
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Lupercalia
Until Fri 26 Apr 2019
Lupercalia is an exciting exhibition of contemporary visual art that examines the werewolf as a powerful and versatile political metaphor, featuring an impressive array of local and interstate talent. The half-human, half-animal creature is employed to explore ideas ranging from dual identities, hybridity, race and gender divides, and post-Internet politics. Artists Abdul Abdullah, Elsie-Jayne Beinke, Jazmina Cininas, Susan Flavell & Luke Thurgate.
Includes sophisticated, large, multi-colour reduction lino prints by Jazmina Cininas.
Adelaide Central School of Art, 7 Mulberry Rd, Glenside SA,
(via Carpark C, enter from 226 Fullarton Rd, Glenside SA)
For more information go to the gallery website or click here.
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Between the devil and the deep blue sea
Mixed Inc & Union St Printmakers
Until Tues 30 Apr 2019
Local printmakers raise awareness of microplastic pollution in the ocean. Sales from the exhibition go towards funding a survey along the coastline of South Australia.
Curated by Associate Professor Sophie Leterme of Flinders University's College of Science & Engineering.
The Wheatsh eaf Hotel: 39 George St, Thebarton SA
* This exhibition is a fundraiser in support of the crowdfunding campaign 'How much plastic is in our ocean'. Please support this marvellous project by donating or sharing with your friends.
* For more information about the exhibition or the Microplastics Project please email Associate Professor Sophie Leterme, Instagram's Microplastics Warrior.
If you can, please support Sophie's crowdfunding project - live until Sun 30 April - raising money to fund a survey along 2,116km of the South Australian coast from Ceduna to Port Macdonnell, collecting samples and reporting on the amount of microplastics present.
How to help?
Tell your friends about the Microplastics Project, donate to the crowdfunding campaign by Sun 30 April and/or volunteer to help.
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End of the Night
Ragini Upadhayay, Diana Orinda Burns, Jackie Gorring & Sandra Starkey Simon
Until Sun 28 Apr 2019
Ragini Upadhayay is a well-known Nepalese printmaker/painter from the Nepal Academy of Art in Kathmandu and manager of Ragini Art Village residency in Balkot, Kathmandu. Alongside Australian printmakers Diana Orinda Burns, Jackie Gorring and Sandra Starkey Simon, these four artists present an exhibition of prints and works on paper exploring themes evoked by the exhibition title, End of the Night, including themes of hope and renewal in the aftermath of tragedy and loss.
Mrs Harris' Shop: 36 Jervois Street, Torrensville SA
Download the invitation.
*This is a travelling exhibition: 23-31 Mar 2019 at Newstead Arts Hub, Castlemaine State Festival (Victoria), followed by Kathmandu (Nepal) (dates TBA).
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Shorelines
Diana Wiseman, Thumbprint Press & friends
Until Thurs 9 May 2019
An exhibition of prints about migratory shorebirds by various South Australian and interstate printmakers. Curated by Diana Wiseman. A South Australian Overwintering Project exhibition.
Port MacDonnell Community Centre: 5-7 Charles Street, Port MacDonnell SA
Email Diana for further details.
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Beyond Measure
Dr Mandy Archibald, John Blines & Amber Cronin
Until Fri 10 May 2019
Beyond Measure builds off research and residencies of the Centre for Research Excellence in Frailty and Healthy Ageing to explore beliefs, experiences and misconceptions about frailty and ageing, and to provide alternative conceptualizations to these perspectives. Featuring artwork by Mandy Archibald, John Blines, Amber Cronin as well as collaborators Justin Broughton & Petra Szabo. Includes large-scale screenprinted monoprints by John Blines & Mandy Archibald.
Praxis ARTSPACE: 68-72 Gibson St, Bowden SA
For more information click here or go to the Praxis ARTSPACE website.
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Ray of Light
Robyn Stacey
Until Sun 26 May 2019
Using the camera obscura, Sydney-based artist Robyn Stacey depicts South Australia as it has never been seen before. Translating from Latin to mean ‘dark room’ the camera obscura is an optical device of wonder, whereby the external world is trapped and inverted within the room.
"The magic of the camera obscura is that it makes us question what we take for granted - the everyday experience is presented upside down and in reverse, mimicking the way an image forms on the retina. In some photographs cars drive over the ceiling and the sky and clouds cover the floor… it’s like being in a movie where you are in the world but removed from it at the same time," says Stacey.
Murray Bridge Regional Gallery: 27 Sixth St, Murray Bridge SA
For more information click here or go to the MBRG website.
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Mortimer Menpes: Impressions of Brittany
Until Sun 26 May 2019
Mortimer Menpes: Impressions of Brittany gives a snapshot of the Adelaide-born artist’s time in Brittany. As a young man, between 1881 and 1883, Menpes and his young family lived in Pont-Aven in France, where they formed part of a lively colony of international artists. His prints depict everyday Bretons going about their daily activities and capture their distinctive clothing, customs and vibrant village life.
Art Gallery of South Australia: North Tce, Adelaide CBD
Gallery: 18
Click to go to the AGSA website.
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Head to Head
Until Sat 6 Jul 2019
HEAD-TO-HEAD examines shifting perspectives in Australian portraiture through the lens of the Flinders University Art Museum collections. From colonial illustrations to contemporary photography and prints, selected works explore colliding cultures, traditions and politics in the depiction of the self and other. The exhibition reflects upon the changing language of representation and ongoing construction of identity in art. It considers the cultural legacy of portraiture and the significance of collections today in what they might reveal about our past, present and future. Featuring prints, photographs, colonial illustrations and paintings from the Flinders University Art Museum collection. Artists Ali Gumillya Baker, Lidia Groblicka, Fiona Foley, Ann Newmarch, Eugenia Tsoulis, Byron Pickett, Peter Drew, Chips Mackinolty.
Flinders University: Ground Floor, Social Sciences North, Off carpark 5, Humanities Rd, Bedford Park Campus SA
For more information click here.
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The Strand Gallery & Art2Go Print Wall
Prints refreshed seasonally
South Australian artists: Original hand-made prints and textiles. Also curated exhibitions of photographs, paintings, sculpture, jewellry and cards. All for immediate sale, off the wall.
The Strand Gallery: 41 The Strand, Pt Elliot SA
Click for more about the Strand Gallery.
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Galleries PDF
Click for a PDF of the galleries that appear in this newsletter.
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Martinique (2-plate lino print), by this month's feature artist, Sophie Leterme.
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SA Printmakers Interstate & Overseas
SA printmaking on tour...
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She collects the beautiful things - Turbulent Nature
Chris de Rosa
Until Mon 6 May 2019
Melbourne
A collection of works on paper and prints by Chris de Rosa.
Chris de Rosa's art practice is informed by dystopian fictions of a future world covered in water where organisms may become even more “rich and strange”. Her work embodies philosophical ideas of the sublime as turbulent nature, where pleasure is derived from observing objects that threaten hurt to or destroy.
In de Rosa's own words, "Almost daily I amble along the south coast beaches where I live, foraging for the strange and the beautiful. Our liminal landscape is riddled with wondrous objects that are largely hidden from the gaze of the casual comber. The hyper-coloured, hyper-real images are a way of bringing these organisms into clear view to remind us just how precious and wondrous this environment is and of the strange beauty of these forms."
Curated by Global Art Projects
Sofitel Melbourne Gallery: 25 Collins St, Melbourne Vic
For more information go to the GAP website.
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Guanlan International Print Biennial
Mei Sheong Wong
mid-May to mid-July 2019
Guanlan, China
The 7th Guanlan International Print Biennial will be held in Guanlan, China, from mid-May to mid-July 2019. Some of Mei Sheong Wong prints (made in Guanlan in 2017) will be shown at the China Print Museum. For more information, please email Mei Sheong Wong.
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Residency Report
Mei Sheong Wong
YAC Tianjin Printmaking Residency
In October 2018 Mei Sheong Wong participated in the YAC Tianjin Printmaking Residency. To read all about it, click here.
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Coffin Bay (multi-colour reduction lino print), by this month's feature artist, Sophie Leterme.
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Taking enrolments now!
Monotype Printmaking: Colour and Place
... with Christobel Kelly in Ireland
Teacher: Christobel Kelly of www.christobelkelly.com
When: Thurs 29 Aug to Fri 6 Sept 2019
Where: Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, Ireland
Click for more about Christobel's workshop, Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowships or Christobel's website.
Set in beautiful County Mayo (Ireland), this workshop explores the exciting possibilities of two-plate monotype printmaking. The cost is $1,700 USD, which includes tuition, shared cottage with private bedroom for eight nights, lunch/dinner/dessert/tea/coffee, collection/delivery to/from the bus/train stations in Ballina, as well as full use of the amazing Ballinglen Library and facilities 24/7. Participants will arrive on 29 August and depart on 6 September 2019. (The workshop is for seven days, with arrival and departure taking the total to nine days). Please contact Una Forde on unaforde.baf@gmail.com for availability and booking forms. For more information click here.
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Choose your own Workshop!
Teacher: Simone Tippett of Union St Printmakers
Days: Sundays & Tuesdays, 10am-4pm, always booked in advance
Venue: UStP @ Stone & Quoin Studio, 6 Manton St, Hindmarsh SA
Click for more information and available dates.
How?
Choose a printmaking process and a date from the website for Union St Printmakers. If there isn't a workshop already planned, we'll start one for you, on the date you choose.
What kinds of workshops?
Lino printing, Japanese woodblock (mokuhanga), screenprinting, etching, stamping, gelli-plate printing, drypoint, monoprinting, waterless lithography, printing without a press, wood engraving, handmaking books, letterpress and much, much more... Tell us what you want to learn and we'll do all we can to help...
... And if we can't teach it, we'll host a guest printmaker who can :)
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Casual Printmaking Classes
Teacher: Simone Tippett of Union St Printmakers
Drypoint/Intaglio Printing: 2pm-5pm, most Monday afternoons
Lino/Relief Printing: 6pm-9pm, most Monday evenings
Venue: UStP @ Stone & Quoin Studio, 6 Manton St, Hindmarsh SA
Casual classes run February-December each year.
Download the workshop flyer.
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Friday Morning Art Classes (with printmaking)
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Memorial for Forgotten Plants
Teacher: Louise Flaherty of http://louiseflaherty.weebly.com
Who: Suitable all ages, including children & familieis
What: Art studio sessions, creating an artwork responding to a local native plant species. (To be exhibited during SALA 2019.)
When: 11am-12.30pm, Wed 24 Apr & Fri 26 Apr 2019
Bookings essential: www.trybooking.com/BBRPP
Venue: Sauerbier House, 21 Wearing St, Port Noarlunga SA
For more information go to the Sauerbier House website or email Sauerbier House for details.
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Vicarious Press Workshops
Teacher: Vicki Reynolds of Vicarious Press
Sun 28 Apr 2019: Japanese book binding.
Sat 4 May 2019: Stamp making & printing for International Print Day May.
Sun 5 May 2019: Papermaking.
Venue: Vicarious Press, 20 High St, Willunga SA
Download the latest Vicarious Press newsletter for workshop & exhibition details.
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6 Week Screenprinting for Beginners
(AC Arts Short Courses)
Teacher: Bridgitte Scales of Adelaide College of the Arts
When: 6-8.30pm, Tues nights, starting Tues 30 Apr 2019
Venue: Adelaide College of the Arts, Light Square, Adelaide CBD
Click here for more information or to enrol.
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Screenprinting with UV Emulsion & Rubylith
Teacher: Simone Tippett of Union St Printmakers
When: 10am-4pm, Sun 12 May 2019
Venue: UStP @ Stone & Quoin Studio, 6 Manton St, Hindmarsh SA
Download the workshop flyer.
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Japanese Bookbinding Workshop
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Hand-Bound Leather Journals
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Hard Cover Book Binding Workshop
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DIY Natural Dyes & Inks
Teacher: Phoebe Hunter of HunterMade
When: 2-5pm, Sat 25 May 2019
Venue: WOTSO, 217-219 Flinders St, Adelaide CBD
Click to for more information.
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Beginners Guide to Screenprinting
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Screenprinting with Contact Stencils
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Beginners Waterless Lithography Workshop
Teacher: Simone Tippett of Union St Printmakers
When: 10am-4pm, Sun 16 Jun 2019
Venue: UStP @ Stone & Quoin Studio, 6 Manton St, Hindmarsh SA
Download the workshop flyer.
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Soft Ground Etching on Copper
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Letterpress for Beginners (3 days)
(AC Arts Short Courses)
Teacher: Bridgitte Scales of Adelaide College of the Arts
When: 9.30am-4pm, Tues 9 to Thurs 11 Jul 2019
Venue: Adelaide College of the Arts, Light Square, Adelaide CBD
Click here for more information or to enrol.
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Introduction to Collagraphs Workshop
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Viscosity Printing Workshop
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4 Plate Colour Etching Workshop (3 days)
Teacher: Stephen Lawlor from Dublin, Ireland , www.stephenlawlor.com
When: 10am-4pm, Tues 1 to Thurs 3 Oct 2019
Venue: Bittondi PrIntmakers Association Inc, Aberfoyle Park SA
Click more information about Bittondi workshops.
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Yellow Banksia (multi-colour reduction lino print with stencil rolls), by this month's feature artist, Sophie Leterme.
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Memorial for Forgotten Plants
Teacher: Louise Flaherty of http://louiseflaherty.weebly.com
Who: Suitable all ages, including children & familieis
What: Art studio sessions, creating an artwork responding to a local native plant species. (To be exhibited during SALA 2019.)
When: 11am-12.30pm, Wed 24 Apr & Fri 26 Apr 2019
Bookings essential: www.trybooking.com/BBRPP
Venue: Sauerbier House, 21 Wearing St, Port Noarlunga SA
For more information go to the Sauerbier House website or email Sauerbier House for details.
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NDIS Art Therapy
Who: Ages 6 to adult, specialising in autism spectrum disorder
What: Children's art classes, including printing, drawing, painting, craft & ceramics
Studio times: ring Petra on 0426 621 271 to book a one-on-one session
Venue: InsideArt Studio, Athelstone SA
Click for more about InsideArt Studio and the NDIS classes.
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Art Classes for Children & Adults
Who: Children's & adults
What: Art classes, including drawing, painting, stamp carving/printing, collage & more
When: Ongoing (check website for details)
Venue: Hubert & Mavis, Hawthorndene SA
Click for more about Hubert & Mavis.
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Pottery Classes for Kids
What: Children's pottery classes, includes glazing and firing
Who: Ages 5 years to teens
Studio times: 4-5.30pm Tues (term time)
Teacher: Mary Pulford of Bittondi Printmaking Association
Venue: Wakefield Potters, Wakefield House, Acre Ave, Morphett Vale SA
Email Mary for more information and to book in.
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Children's Art Classes
What: Children's art classes, including printing, clay, painting and drawing
Who: Ages 6 years to teens
Starts: 4pm-5.30pm from Wed 1 May for 7 weeks (term time, with no classes on 3rd Wed of each month, limited places remaining)
Teacher: Mary Pulford of Bittondi Printmaking Association
Venue: Willunga Environment Centre, 18 Main St, Willunga SA
Email Mary for more information and to book in.
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Children's Art Classes
What: Children's art classes, including printing, drawing, clay work, painting & making
Who: Ages 5 years to teens
Studio times: 4-5pm, 5.15-6.15pm & 6.30-8pm Mon & Wed (term time)
Teacher: Deb Twining of Twining Arts
Venue: Twining Arts, 33 Onkaparinga Valley Rd, Verdun SA
Click for more about Twining Arts.
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Eucalypt Flowers (multi-colour reduction lino print with stencil rolls), by this month's feature artist, Sophie Leterme.
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Newsworthy Things...
Interesting articles, achievements, news, links and stuff...
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Engraving on copper...
Andrew Stein Raftery demonstrates his engraving process, from paper to copper... see here.
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The importance of drawing...
An interesting arcticle on the importance of drawing... see here.
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Mokuhanga...
Terry McKenna's documentation of the processes and stages of making his print Raging Waves... see here.
Sun Xun demonstrates his carving process... see here. (Love the hand-printing with a light bulb!)
(And a video interview with Sun Xun about his ink art here from the 2013 exhibition Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China. The interview includes excerpts from Sun Xun's fascinating animation using lino prints and drawings.)
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Opportunity Knocking...
Exhibition call outs, grants, residencies, internships, collaborations, etc.
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Call for Entries: Print/Paper
Bittondi Printmakers Association
10th Anniversary Print Exhibition
Open to Bittondi members, past and present.
Last call for entries in the Bittondi 10 th Anniversary exhibition at the Arts Centre at Port Noarlunga during SALA 2019. Please exhibit 1 to 2 prints, either new works or anything from the past 10 years. Works may be framed prints (hung with D-rings), artist books displayed on plinths or unframed prints on a "cash and carry" stand.
RSVPs close: Sat 27 April 2019
Email Bittondi to RSVP or go to the Bittondi website.
Fremantle Arts Centre
Freemantle Arts Centre Print Award 2019
The Freemantle Arts Centre Print Award is the nation's richest print prize and a showcase/celebration of contemporary Australian printmaking. Selected works to be exhibited Fri 20 Sept to Sun 10 Nov 2019, with prize winners announced Thurs 19 Sept 2019.
Deadline for entries: Fri 24 May 2019
For more information or to enter click here.
Print Council of Australia
Ursula Hoff Essay for Imprint 2019
Open to Australian and international applicants. Inviting submissions from emerging and established art historians, curators and writers - to write an original research essay that considers an aspect of Australian print culture over the past 50 years.
Registrations close: Mon 1 July 2019
Click for more information.
Awagami International
Miniature Print Exhibition 2019 (AIMPE)
The purpose of this exhibition is to introduce ‘washi’ - Japan's traditional handmade paper (and cultural treasure) - to international printmakers. In so doing, AIMPE provides opportunities for artists to exhibit their prints and promote expressionistic fine art printmaking.
Entries open: Wed 1 May 2019
Deadline for entries: Wed 31 Jul 2019
For more information or to enter click here.
Megalo Print Studio + Gallery
Megalo International Print Prize 2019
The inaugural Megalo International Print Prize has an impressive prize pool of $18,000.
Entries open: Sat 4 May 2019
Deadline for entries: Wed 31 Jul 2019
For more information or to enter click here.
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Visual Arts Residencies
Helpmann Academy
Sanskriti Kendra 2019 Residency Program
The Sanskriti Kendra Residency is a six-week program in India, at a retreat on the outskirts of New Delhi, offering artists from diverse cultures the opportunity to reflect, interact and create. The residency offers total immersion in Indian culture in an environment that supports and encourages artistic practice. Artists from around the world coexist with Indian artisans and contemporary Indian artists in an environment that aims to enrich and strengthen the bonds of shared cultural experiences, and to encourage the fruition of individual creative endeavour. Sanskriti’s studio facilities are suited to printmakers, ceramicists and sculptors, two-dimensional artists and jewellers. Open to visual artists, up to five years following their final year of study with one of the Helpmann Academy’s partner institutions.
Applications close: Fri 31 May 2019
Click for more information.
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Call for Applications: Artist Mentorships
Helpmann Academy
Elevate Mentorship Program
The Helpmann Academy Elevate Mentorship Program facilitates one-on-one relationships with established artists, allowing emerging artists to develop their professional practice through further learning, development of skills, advice and networking.
Applications open: May 2019
Applications close: TBA 2019
Click for more information.
Helpmann Academy
Regular Grants Round 1
The Helpmann Academy’s grants scheme offers more than $100,000 a year in funding for performing and visual arts projects. Regular grants are offered twice a year. Grants of up to $4,000 for individuals and $9,000 for groups are available for staff, final year students and graduates (up to five years from the final year of study) from all of the Helpmann Academy’s partner institutions. Regular grants support opportunities such as:
- Professional development in creative career building
- Exploration of new artforms and exposure to emerging methods
- Creation of original new work
- Participation in residencies, workshops, masterclasses and summer schools
Applications close: Fri 3 May 2019
Click for more information.
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Call for Entries: The Overwintering Project
The Overwintering Project, Mapping Sanctuary
The Overwintering Project is an ambitious, long-term project by printmaker Kate Gorringe-Smith. The project seeks to raise awareness of our migratory shorebirds and their fragile habitats by inviting artists to make them visible. Open to humans everywhere with an interest in birds and printmaking.
Registrations of interest: are ongoing
Email Kate for more information or click here for more information.
The Overwintering Project 2019 Print Folio
To be included in the latest print folio for The Overwintering Project, please check the folio information here and the rules for print submission here. The print folio will be exhibited summer 2019-20 at the Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, and again in the summer of 2020-21 at the Burnie Regional Art Gallery.
Funds raised from the sale of prints will be put towards shorebird research.
Open to all artists/printmakers.
Print deadline: Thurs 1 Aug 2019
Email Kate for more information or click here for more information.
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Want to Exhibit?
... These ARIs and alternative venues are worth considering
The Collective Haunt Inc.
Artist Run Initiative - studios & gallery
Level 1, 68 The Parade, Norwood SA
Click for more information and the Collective Haunt website.
The Wheatsheaf Hotel
Public bar - saloon gallery
39 George St, Thebarton SA
Email the gallery co-ordinator.
Floating Goose Studios Inc.
Artist Run Initiative - studios & gallery
271 Morphett St, Adelaide CBD
Click for the Floating Goose website.
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Landscape (multi-colour reduction lino print), by this month's feature artist, Sophie Leterme.
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Printy Things for Sale
Printmaking equipment (and services) for sale.
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Trays of Type for Sale
Various trays of type for sale. Please contact Andrea Przygonski by email.
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Screenprinting Equipment for Sale
Various screenprinting equipment for sale, including used and unused screens. Artist selling up studio. Please contact Jan Stephenson by email.
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Beginners Print Kits
To order a Beginners Print Pack for yourself, as a gift, or for a classroom/studio setup, click here. Compiled by Simone Tippett of Union St Printmakers, each kit contains the consumeables you need to get started in a process. |
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Need Printmaking Materials?
Local art shops, specialising in printmaking supplies, with printmakers/artists on hand to talk materials:
- Union St Printmakers, during printmaking classes and workshops, 0407 079 604 & www.unionstprintmakers.com. Visits by appointment. Contact Simone Tippett about specialist printmaking materials.
- The Analogue Lab, 0408 377 017 (Aurelia Carbone), hello@analoguelab.com.au & www.analoguelab.com.au. Visits by appointment. Contact Aurelia Carbone about specialist printmaking/alternate photography papers.
- Port Art Supplies, at Ripple Artist Studios, 83 Commercial Road, Port Adelaide, 8241 0059 & www.portartsupplies.com.au.
- Duthy Art Supplies, at 6 Duthy St, Unley, 8373 3314 & www.duthystreetartsupplies.com.au. Speak to Megan Roodenrys about specialist printmaking materials.
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Printmaking Gift Vouchers
Contact Simone Tippett of Union St Printmakers to enquire about Gift Vouchers for special occasions. Gift Vouchers can be used for casual printmaking classes, full-day workshops, paying for print services and buying printmaking materials.
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Melle Clovette (single-colour lino print), by this month's feature artist, Sophie Leterme.
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Feature Artist
This month's feature artist is...
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Sophie Leterme
Associate Professor Sophie Leterme is a marine biologist keen on saving the world's oceans from microplastics pollution, as well as an emerging printmaker (on the side), and a lover of cheese. (She's French.) She's also my friend and I'm a bit in awe of the way she combines science and art. All of us at Saturday afternoon lino class love her and are inspired by her work.
The images in this newsletter are prints from that Sophie has done on the side of her 'proper' job as a full time scientist. To see more of what she's up to, please click here. And to support her self-motivated, self-funded research campaign, click here. (Yes, atop of being a scientist and university lecturer, artist AND cheese lover, she's also initiating practical new research in her own time.) To contact Sophie - to volunteer to help out with her research and/OR to buy a print - please email her here. And to keep an eye on her on Instagram, go to Microplastics Warrior. (If you are a school teacher, Microplastics Warrior is GOLD!)
*Sophie's lino prints - and those of her friends at Mixed Inc - can be seen in the exhibition 'Between the devil and the deep blue sea' until the end of April 2019 at The Wheatsheaf Hotel.
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The studio of this month's feature artist, Sophie Leterme... (Hey, someone has to do it!)
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Enjoy... And please feel free to share this newsletter with other artists, printmakers, drawers and photographers!
Cheers,
Simone Tippett
Union St Printmakers
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