Parallel Prints launched at Art Gallery of Ballarat

From left: Parallel Prints artists Antoinetta Covino-Beehre, Deborah Klein and James Pasakos (co-curator of the
exhibition) with Mark Graver, Parallel Prints founder and co-curator 

Yesterday evening the exhibition Parallel Prints was jointly launched at the Art Gallery of Ballarat by the gallery’s Registrar Anne Rowland and Parallel Prints co-curator and participating artist Mark Graver.

It was great to finally meet Mark and his partner Tania Booth, third of the Parallel Prints curators. Mark and Tania are founders of Art at Wharepuke in Kerikeri, New Zealand, where the exhibition is also showing.

Pictured below and above are some of the evenings highlights:

From left: DK (with back to camera) Art Gallery of Ballarat Registrar Anne Rowlands, Simon Storey and Ewan Barker

Fellow Goldfields Printmaker Catherine Pilgrim with Goldfields Printmakers founder, James Pasakos

Mark Graver

Mark presents the Parallel Prints portfolio to Anne Rowlands; it is now
part of the gallery's permanent collection

DK speaking with Mark Graver and Tania Booth

Three happy artists: Antoinetta Covino-Beehre, James Pasakos and myself with our very own copies of the Parallel Prints portfolio.

For more about Parallel Prints, scroll down to previous post.

Parallel Prints Opening Event

Parallel Prints, the Australia/New Zealand exhibition/portfolio that includes my linocut Ideopsis gaura Winged Woman (pictured above) opened at the Art Gallery of Ballarat on Friday, October 2. A joint project of the Art Gallery of Ballarat and Art at Wharepuke, New Zealand, Parallel Prints will be simultaneously exhibited at both venues.

For those who can't make the show, a complete set of prints are here: http://www.parallel-prints.com/parallel-prints-2015-nzaustralia/.

To date the portfolio has been accepted into the permanent collections of the Art Gallery of Ballarat and Federation University, Ballarat.

The opening event is this Friday, October 9 at 6.00 for 6.30 pm. If you are planning to join us, please RSVP the gallery on 5320 5858. For full details, click on the above image to enlarge.

The exhibition concludes on Sunday, 22 November.

Dainty paperwing Woman x 36

Last Wednesday's intensive printing session in the Ballarat studio has resulted in a veritable swarm of Ideopsis Gaura (Dainty Paperwing) Women (see photo #4 below).

Once the ink has dried, each print will be hand coloured (the butterfly from which this Homo-insecta evolved is yellow, black and white).

Due to the magic of the multiple, Ideopsis gaura (Dainty paperwing) Woman will make simultaneous debuts in October at the Art Gallery of Ballarat and Wharepuke Print Studio, New Zealand, as part of Parallel Prints, an exhibition featuring 11 Australian artists and one New Zealander: the show's curator Mark Graver. Full details TBA.

Pictured above: stages in the editioning process of Ideopsis gaura (Dainty papering) Woman, 2015, linocut, 30 x 30 cm (paper size) edition: 36.

Progress views of Ideopsis gaura (Dainty paperwing) Woman

The carving of the linocut Ideopsis gaura (Dainty paperwing) Woman is entering its final stages in perfect unison with the last days of the 2015 Melbourne International Film Festival. (See previous post).

Directly below: the lino block on the drafting table, surrounded by reference materials and other paraphernalia and overlooked by chorus lines of Homo-insecta (top) Shadow Women (bottom) and artworks by Jazmina Cininas, Rona Green and Claire Humphries (left of screen).

My workstation at our warehouse apartment in Abbotsford, Melbourne

Below are selected views of the linocut’s gradual progress throughout the past week:

Ideopsis gaura (Dainty Paperwing) Woman - a new linocut

The 2015 Melbourne International Film Festival is now in full swing. As regular visitors to this blog will be aware, MIFF is an event Shane and I attend every year. Pictured below in its early stages of development is one of two projects I'll be working on between screenings: Ideopsis gaura (Dainty Paperwing) Woman, 2015, pencil and acrylic on linoleum, 22 x 23 cm (approx. image size).

The completed linocut is destined for Parallel Prints NZ/Australia, an exhibition featuring 1 New Zealand artist and 11 Australian artists. The exhibition is scheduled to open at the Art Gallery of Ballarat and Wharepuke Print Studio, New Zealand on 3 October. Full details will be posted nearer the time.