Closing today: The Printmakers’ Garden of Imagination

Yesterday morning Shane Jones and I called into Newstead Arts Hub, ostensibly to drop in some of my work, but also to take one last look at The Printmakers’ Garden of Imagination on its penultimate day. It was lovely to soak up the sun and chat with fellow Goldfields Printmakers and exhibiting artists, Anne Langdon and Janette Wotherspoon, who were sitting the gallery. That football match everyone was going on about seemed another world away. 

Today is your last chance to catch the show before closing time at 4 pm. Alternatively, if you grab a very fast plane, you might just catch it at IMPACT 12, the International Printmaking Symposium in Bristol, UK. 

Photo credit for the above three installation views of The Printmakers’ Garden of Imagination at IMPACT 12: Goldfields Printmakers founder, James Pasakos (pictured right, top).

The following installation views were snapped during yesterday’s visit to Newstead.

I’m going to miss this show, which surely must be one of the Goldfields Printmakers’ most successful ever. 

The Printmakers’ Garden of Imagination
Newstead Arts Hub
8A Tivey Street, Newstead VIC 3642
Hours: 10am - 4pm

Continuing this weekend: The Printmakers’ Garden of Imagination

 

Owing to initial time constraints, I only printed a couple of each of my two linocuts in the current Goldfields Printmakers exhibition, The Printmaker’s Garden of Imagination at Newstead Arts Hub, never dreaming there would be any interest in them. Much gratitude to those who have already acquired one or both, or have placed orders.

Part of the past week was spent printing further works from the limited editions of 30. Fortunately my trusty Poppy Press didn’t let me down, as Alice (pictured above) will attest. 

Unless other arrangements have been made, the works will be available for collection on Sunday 25 September, the last day of the exhibition. 

Newstead Arts Hub,

8A Tivey Street, Newstead VIC 3642
The show is open every weekend until 25 September.
Opening Hours: Sat and Sun 10am - 4pm

The Printmaker’s Garden of Imagination will also be shown at IMPACT 12, the International Printmaking Conference in Bristol, UK.

Pictured above: The Heavens Declare (1) and (2), 2022, linocut, chine-collé, each 20 x 15 cm (image), 42 x 29 cm (paper), ed: 30. (Installation view at Newstead Arts Hub).

The Heavens Declare

The Heavens Declare (1), 2022, pictured top, is part of the forthcoming Goldfields Printmakers exhibition, The Printmakers’ Garden of Imagination. Like its sister work, The Heavens Declare (2), (see below) it takes a detail from The Heavens Declare… (c. 1910), a needlework by British Arts and Crafts artist and designer May Morris (1862-1938), as its point of departure. 

Both linocuts reflect on the formative years I spent in UK and on my home country of Australia - in this instance, my present home in the Victorian Goldfields city of Ballarat. This work also recalls the wild rose bushes still found on the goldfields that were originally planted by British colonists as sentimental reminders of their own home country.

The Heavens Declare (2), 2022, pictured above, references the introduction of orange trees to Australia. In 1788, orange seeds were brought over by Captain Arthur Phillip, the first Governor of New South Wales. Reverend Richard Johnson, Chaplain of the fledgling colony, subsequently planted a small orange grove in Bridge Street, Sydney. They were the first orange trees in Australia to bear fruit. 

Scroll down to my last post for further information about the show, including a list of participating artists.

Opening event: Saturday 3 September, 2.00 - 3.30 pm 

Newstead Arts Hub

8A Tivey Street, Newstead VIC 3642

Opening Hours: Sat and Sun 10am - 4pm

Current to 25 September.

The exhibition will run concurrently at IMPACT 12, the International Printmaking Conference in Bristol, UK.

Pictured top: The Heavens Declare (1), 2022, linocut, chine-collé, 20 x 15 cm (image), ed: 30.

Pictured second: The Heavens Declare (2), 2022, linocut, chine-collé, 20 x 15 cm (image), ed: 30.

The Printmakers’ Garden of Imagination

Deborah Klein, The Heavens Declare (2), 2022,  

Linocut, chine collé, 20 x 15 cm, Edition 1/30

You are cordially invited to

THE PRINTMAKERS’ GARDEN OF IMAGINATION 

An exhibition of prints by GOLDFIELDS PRINTMAKERS

at Newstead Arts Hub

Opening Event: Sat 3 September 2 - 3.30 pm

Participating Artists

Loris Button

Anne Langdon

James Pasakos

Dianne Longley

Barbara Semler

Marte Newcombe

Deborah Klein

Jan Palethorpe

Susan Clarke

Leonie Auhl

Robyn Gibson

Jackie Gorring

Marie Mason

Emma Stoneman

Penny Peckham

Diana Orinda Burns

Melissa Proposch

Catherine Pilgrim

Goldfields Printmakers, a collective of 25 printmakers based in the Victorian Goldfields region, was formed in 2012. To learn more about the group, visit our website HERE. 

Newstead Arts Hub

8A Tivey Street, Newstead VIC 3642

 Website: https://newsteadartshub.org/

Email: info@newsteadartshub.org

Opening Hours: Sat and Sun 10am - 4pm

The exhibition runs to 25 September.

The Printmakers’ Garden of Imagination will be exhibited concurrently at IMPACT 12, the International Printmaking Conference in Bristol, UK.