Saturday, August 2 was a MIFF-free day (see previous post) but an eventful one nonetheless. I attended an information session at the
Australian Print Workshop (my stint there as a Special Guest Artist of their
Summer School has already made my personal list of this year’s highlights).
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| APW Print Fair poster, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne |
I’m delighted to be one of 15 artists
invited to take part in the APW’S first ever Print Fair, which will take place
over the weekend of 11-12 October, 2014. The information session, conducted by
APW Director Anne Virgo and Manager Jackie Hocking, was tremendously helpful
and informative, with a wealth of practical tips about presentation and other vital
issues.
It was terrific to see fellow APW Print
Fair artists Georgia Thorpe and Jazmina Cininas and to meet the other
participants. The fair will be held in the APW studios, amongst all those wonderful
presses. We already have our individual spots, which were democratically
allocated: each of us was invited to pull a number from a bucket. I’m thrilled
with mine: number 12 is at the far back of studio one, next to the etching
press I used back in my access printing days.
During the Print Fair there will be
exhibition of works by Print Fair artists in the APW Gallery.
Meanwhile, Jewel Beetle Woman, the
linocut I made early this year in collaboration with APW Master Printer Simon
White, is part of the APW’s current exhibition, Contemporary Print – Original
limited edition prints produced in collaboration with APW Printers.
Also featured are works by Lisa Roet, Laith McGregor, Allan Mitelman, Andrew
Browne, Jan Senbergs, Emily Floyd, Louise Weaver, eX de Medici, John Wolseley
and Chris O’Doherty (aka Reg Mombassa). Contemporary
Print opened on 19 July and runs until 23 August.
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| APW Manager Jackie Hocking colourfully juxtaposed with my linocut Jewel Beetle Woman at the current exhibition Contemporary Print, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne |