1Featured here are selected highlights from yesterday afternoon’s opening of IRREPRESSIBLE at Whitehorse Artspace. That’s me directly above, alongside my hand-coloured linocut, Everything’s Coming Up Roses.*
Among those also pictured, in no particular order, are IRREPRESSIBLE artist/curator Rona Green (images 2,3, 9 and 10) and the ever-irrepressible Press Gang, including lead singer and lyricist extraordinaire Jazmina Cininas, (images 5, 6 and 7) with Jim Pavlidis on guitar (images 5, 6 and 8).
Also featured are Cr Kirsten Langford, Mayor, Whitehorse City Council, who launched the exhibition (image 2, right).
No mere blog post can possibly do justice to an exhibition of this scope, and this one doesn’t even come close. It was great to see so many of the artists there, along with their works, including Clayton Tremlett (image 20) and Kate Gorringe-Smith (image 22). Others (several of them old friends) can be spotted in the crowd scenes.
A highlight, among so many, was seeing Richard Harding’s final work, superbly brought to realisation by Deborah Williams, in the flesh. (Image 21).
Over the years I’ve been fortunate to have been included in numerous Rona Green exhibitions/folio exchanges, yet every time it takes awhile to sink in that I now own complete sets of prints from all of these, including every work in this stunning exhibition.
IRREPRESSIBLE demonstrates the extraordinary range and sophistication of the relief print like no other exhibition I’ve seen. Thank you for having us, Whitehorse Artspace and also for the impeccable hang. Last but not least, enormous thanks to Rona Green for coordinating the exhibition/print exchange and inviting me to be part of it.
IRREPRESSIBLE runs to 16 May, 2026.
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