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Goldfields Printmakers exhibition -Ballarat Art Gallery

5/30/2013

Borders & Crossings 25th May - 7th July

"The Moon Bird Returns"
Collagraph,
Mono print and Ghost print techniques.
Akua water based ink
Fabriano Rosapina- Bianco 220gsm paper
The creation of this image has involved several printmaking techniques in my quest to recreate a vision I saw in the half light, in the evening when the Moon bird returned.
The short-tailed shearwater, found on Griffith Island off Port Fairy on the south coast of Victoria, Australia is a rather ordinary looking bird but it has an amazing annual migration. Using the prevailing winds, the shearwater sets off
north on a circular crossing of the vast Pacific Ocean, completing a flight of 15,000 km over several months. From Australia the shearwater flies northward to Japan and Alaska circling around past California, onto New Zealand battling
crosswinds, to return exhausted to the same burrow and on almost the same evening as the rest of the colony. This remarkable bird undertakes this challenging annual journey by instinct and I marvel at the freedom of flight to travel without borders to such distant places. Val McCann

Jimmy Pasakos
(Lecturer School of Arts & Education University of Ballarat)

The exhibiting printmakers

This is the first exhibition of the Goldfields Printmakers group... exhibiting printmakers include Jimmy Pasakos, Anne Langdon, Amanda Lawler, Barbara Semler, David Frazer, David Pudney, Deborah Klein, Rosemary Eagle, Diana Orinda-Burns, Jackie Gorring, Jan Palethorpe, Josephine Walsh, Kim Barter, Leonie Auhl, Melissa Proposch and Val McCann.
www.goldfieldsprintmakers.com

The prints will be taken to Dundee in Scotland later in 2013 to the Impact 8 Printmakers conference where Jimmy Pasakos will present the work in an open folio and deliver a paper on the formation of the group. Next year the same folio of prints will travel to New Zealand to the Wharepuke Gallery for a group exhibition. http://www.nontoxic-printmaking.co.nz

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Grampians Brushes- Workshop festival

5/17/2013

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"The Grampians Brushes" workshop festival in September 2013 offers a wide range of visual art workshops. The festival is set in the township of Halls Gap nestled between the stunning Grampians ranges. The workshops offered, cater for a wide range of abilities and in the areas of watercolour, oil painting, coloured pencil, drawing, printmaking, life drawing, charcoal, & botanical. Some workshops adopt a traditional approach while others are more contemporary.
In the printmaking area, David Frazer will be offering Relief printmaking in a weekend workshop and Etching in his 4 day workshop during the festival.
I will be offering an introduction to Dry point and Monotype/Monoprinting in my two day weekend workshop and the Collagraph technique in my four day workshop.
For enrollment in this fantastic festival go to the website www.grampiansbrushes.com.au

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Print Exhibition - Goldfields Printmakers

5/16/2013

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The Goldfields Printmakers Group is exhibiting a group show at the Ballarat Art Gallery. (See details above) and check out the printmakers involved on the website www.golfieldsprintmakers.com
We each had to submit 3 prints on the theme of "Borders & Crossings" to be individually interpreted by each printmaker in their printmaking method of choice and as a result the collection of prints are so varied. Two prints each have been selected for this exhibition while one print each will travel to the Impact 8 printmakers conference in Dundee Scotland later in the year.
Jimmy Pasakos, lecturer from Ballarat University will accompany the open folio and present a paper on the formation of The Goldfields printmakers group.

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Workshop printing leaves & feathers

5/13/2013

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A print workshop with my "Kollective" friends at Halls Gap.
There is a great thrill that I feel still when teaching new skills to others. The Grampians "Kollective" each month runs a morning share workshop where each member has their turn at introducing their area of expertise/their passion to the rest of the group. It was my turn on the Saturday morning 11th may.
"What to offer in the area of printmaking for a half a day?" was a big question.
I asked those members attending to bring along feathers, and leaves and textured papers and I would supply the rest... printing press included.
Sarah's themed leaf prints are featured to the left.

The Prints

Because the prints were small scale, we could place quite a few on the press at once and in this way every participant could get quick results.
The "Kollective" has a beautiful light filled workshop at a house and gallery that once belonged to the very respected Halls Gap, Grampians artist, Laurie Evans.

The Method

Methods explored on the day included embossing and blind embossing, printing from textured papers, layering and printing collage elements, ghost printing and chine colle.