I’m delighted to be part of Istoria: History, Story, Tale, A Goldfields Printmakers Survey Exhibition at Arc Yinnar, opening on Saturday, 24 June.
Memory 14 and Memory 40, my works in Istoria, explore the historic connection between the Victorian Goldfields and China during the gold rushes, a period of Australian history from which Chinese women were all but absent.
… The word history refers to all time preceding this very moment and everything that 'really' happened up to now. The distinctions may be much messier than that of course and as printmakers - people who use visual imagery to imaginatively convey meaning - we make full use of the freedom afforded by mark-making, to play with the way a picture tells a thousand stories, histories or tales.
- Excerpt from Istoria, exhibition essay by Dr. Loris Button.
Istoria: History, Story, Tale
A Goldfields Printmakers Survey Exhibition
Opening address by Gippsland printmaker Jenny Peterson
2pm, Saturday, 24 June
Arc Yinnar
19 - 23 Main Street
Yinnar, Vic 3839
Telephone: 03 5163 1310
The exhibition runs to Sunday, 23 July
Pictured from top, 1-3:
Memory 14, Phemograph, (archival pigment print), 32.5 x 24.2 cm
Memory 40, Phemograph, (archival pigment print), 28 x 21.4 cm
Invitation to Istoria with list of participating artists
