Parallel Prints launch at the Art Gallery of Ballarat

From left: Parallel Prints artists Antoinetta Covino-Beehre, James Pasakos
and myself. (James is also the exhibition's co-curator)

Although it was only launched last night, Parallel Prints (see previous post) has been open to the public for over a week and is already receiving a tremendous response. The exhibition coincides with the Archibald Prize, the controversial contemporary portrait exhibition that recently travelled to the Art Gallery of Ballarat from its home at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Many of those who initially came to see the Archibald have discovered this less-hyped, more intimate show and have stayed on to spend some quality time with the works.

Parallel Prints is showing concurrently at Art at Wharepuke, Kerikeri, New Zealand.

Pictured below and above are some snaps from last night. For more photos of the Parallel Prints launch, go to my Art Blog.

From left: DK with Mark Graver and his partner Tania Booth (right)
co-curators of Parallel Prints and founders of Art at Wharepuke, NZ 

Pictured with my very own Parallel Prints portfolio and my linocut
Ideopsis gaura (Dainty paperwing) Woman

Your Invitation to the APW Print Fair

Pictured top: Enchanted Hair Ornament #3, 2009,
hand coloured linocut, 30.5 x 23.5 cm, ed. 30

As previously noted, the characters dominating my prints at this weekend’s APW Print Fair, namely the moth-masked women, the butterfly-winged women and the eight sisters whose elaborately coiffed tresses are adorned with enchanted hair ornaments, all appeared in my first fairy tales.

This has prompted me to include one last work in the Print Fair: the Special Edition of There was once… the collected fairy tales, which includes a small linocut, Lace Lepidopteran. It is limited to an edition of 20. Moth Eaten, another fairy tale contained in the book, was the inspiration for the print.

To preview the rest of the work, scroll down to our last blog post, Saturday, 4 October.

Special edition of There was once... with linocut
Lace Lepidopteran, 2010,
16 x 10.5 cm, ed.20

My prints and I will be at the Print Fair on both days; we hope you will stop by.

APW Print Fair
Australian Print Workshop

Fitzroy, 3065

T: 03 9419 5466

E: auspw@bigpond.com

www.australianprintworkshop.com

Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 October

Hours: 10 am–5 pm each day.

Winged Women

This week at Moth Woman Press we began editioning the 18 lino blocks that will illustrate the forthcoming artist book Swarm.

Image above: Winged Women, 2010, linocuts, installation view, 32 x 32 cm (each work)

Photograph by Tim Gresham. Click on image to enlarge.