Postcards from the North & South exhibition catalogue

Postcards from the North & South 2016 PressNorth Printmakers, Townsville - Queensland Firestation Print Studio, Armadale - Victoria Hawkes Bay Printmakers, New Zealand

Postcards from the North & South 2016 PressNorth Printmakers, Townsville - Queensland Firestation Print Studio, Armadale - Victoria Hawkes Bay Printmakers, New Zealand

Amber Graham Hawkes Bay Printmakers Kowhai Screen print 15 x 10cm $53

The beautiful kowhai is a native tree of NZ. It is the unofficial national flower of NZ. The word kowhai means yellow in maori.

Amber Graham Hawkes Bay Printmakers Monster Screen print 10 x 15cm $53 I’m friends with the monster that’s under my bed.

Angela Cheung PressNorth Printmakers A view to the past Print release, linocut print 10 x 15cm $40 This print is part of a series of recent works that explore the notion of windows reflecting on Asian culture and history.

Ann Bartholomeusz PressNorth Printmakers FarAndAway Digital, linocut print 15 x 10cm $120

As a child growing up in England in the 70’s, mail and the occasional gift from relatives overseas fed my imagination and inspired me to travel far and away when I became an adult.

Anne Lord PressNorth Printmakers Ayr to Tsv Relief print 18 x 13cm $90

This relief print is from a series about driving.

Anneke Silver PressNorth Printmakers Tropical Living Digital print 15 x 10cm $80

I love living in the tropics, the light, the old architecture and the plants.

Annie Day Firestation Print Studio From the East Photopolymer intaglio inked a la poupée 10 x 15cm $46 My postcard depicts Galla Placidia who ruled Rome from Ravenna 423 – 437.

The image began as an aluminium etching adapted to photopolymer plate.

Beata Slifierz Firestation Print Studio Fragments Multi-plate linocut print 15 x 10cm $109

This work is part of a larger body of work in which I engage with forms and patterns deeply rooted in my memory and cultural heritage.

Belinda Curry PressNorth Printmakers Obscure Digital print 15 x 10cm $35

An image can be interpreted in many ways, as with Obscure - a cloud shrouded earth or a forest through the haze?

Belinda Kopietz Firestation Print Studio Model’s Gaze Linocut, chine-collÊ 10 x 15cm $46 Woman as motif. Life Model as drawn experience. Charcoal mark. Translation.

Ephemeral notions. Structure. Gesture.

Yearning. Vitality. Vulnerability.

Monumentality. Loss. Gain. Always questioning the potential power of image.

Beth Charles Hawkes Bay Printmakers Storm clouds roll Relief print 10 x 15cm $50 Storm clouds roll - lyrics taken from ‘Anchor me’ by Don McGlashan, one of the great contemporary New Zealand singer/songwriters.

Carmel O’Connor Firestation Print Studio Storm in a Teacup Linocut print 10 x 15cm $25 Postcards are fun to produce from a linocut design. I like the small format and the playful, quirky ideas attached to greetings. I also enjoy being part of the group shows.

Cate Godwin Hawkes Bay Printmakers Break Free Drypoint etching, watercolour, chine-collĂŠ 15 x 10cm $37

This image was inspired by a series of photographs that I took during my summer walks. I like the simplicity of the content and the processes that I used.

Christine Potter Hawkes Bay Printmakers Thermal Pool Collagraph 15 x 10cm $25

Cracked mud and sulphur deposits surrounding a thermal pool in the Raukawa area near Taupo inspired this collagraph.

David Andrew Hawkes Bay Printmakers Spiny Murex Relief print 15 x 10cm $53

I am inspired by the natural world and this is reflected in my prints and paintings. This murex shell was collected from a trawler’s net.

Diana Orinda Burns Firestation Print Studio Votives Etching 15 x 10cm $86

The miniature goddesses are associated with plant growth and fertility. This postcard print is emblematic of protection and safe travel.

Diane Harries Hawkes Bay Printmakers A window on history Linocut print 15 x 10cm $50

If postcards are a window on history, how far back can we go?

Donna Foley PressNorth Printmakers Syllogism Drypoint etching 15 x 10cm $65

Illogically, humans are less prepared to demonstrate individual leadership and more prepared to follow any individual that stands out no matter how crazy the individual appears to be.

Dorothy Andrews Hawkes Bay Printmakers

Beetle Larvae Mezzotint 10 x 15cm $33 I love the natural environment and all the small and vulnerable parts that contribute to it.

Edith May Firestation Print Studio Varied Corners Linocut print 10 x 15cm $29 We talk about four corners of the globe but I have never been able to locate them. Still looking.

Elizabeth Banfield Firestation Print Studio Hallett Cove Sampler Linocut with Kozo tissue thread 10 x 15cm $92 Hallett Cove in South Australia is an important geological site, with its colours and lines, its rock faces being pushed up and its sandstone hills being eroded down. This is a sample of its many treasures, linocuts on tissue paper, delicately representing the ever-changing nature of our environment.

Faith Ellis PressNorth Printmakers Cafe Topography II Solar plate etching 10 x 15cm $46 Cafes provide me with a sense of community. Shadows and textures creatively inspire me. Cafe Topography II explores the relationships and interactions between these natural elements & man-made community hubs.

Gabriel Smith PressNorth Printmakers Tred lightly Multiple collagraphs, lino block, encaustic 15 x 10cm $80

My love of nature, the flora, fauna and geology, inspires my work, I am particularly influenced by where and how man interacts with the natural environment.

Like these tyre tracks crossing the land.

Gai Copeman PressNorth Printmakers Prickles Linocut print 15 x 10cm $90

Nocturnal garden visitors.

Hannah Amelia King Hawkes Bay Printmakers

It’s in your hands Drypoint etching 10 x 15cm $107 I explore ideas of identity and place by relating native animals and human elements. This communicates a humanistic approach connecting the viewer to their environment.

Irene Rae PressNorth Printmakers Dried grasses Print release, chinĂŠ-colle 10 x 15cm $55 Nature stimulates our senses both in times of abundance and scarcity.

These dried grasses form a geometrically intertwined mass that, in isolation, is artistically pleasing.

Jill O’Sullivan PressNorth Printmakers Perseid Meteorite Shower N.W. Queensland Spirit aquatint and drypoint Meteorite showers in clear North 15 x 10cm Western Queensland night skies $50 are spectacular.

Jill Webster Hawkes Bay Printmakers Run Monoprint, screenprint, heat transfer 15 x 10cm $75

This postcard series presents a ‘busy’ field of movement in its imagery as well as its colour and tonal shifts.

Jo Lankester PressNorth Printmakers Embryonic Lotus Etching, drypoint, chine-collĂŠ 15 x 10cm $70

Embryonic Lotus draws inspiration from the lotus seedpod, exploring themes of regeneration through a synthesis of abstraction and realism.

Joan Johns Firestation Print Studio We’re Waiting Linocut print 15 x 10cm $58

The shadows cast by the people waiting for the next race to begin at the outback races in Broken Hill was the inspiration for this print.

Joan Mullarrey Firestation Print Studio Arcane Whispers Monoprint 10 x 15cm $20 Arcane Whispers is inspired by ancient Celtic Neolithic stone markings. These mysterious carvings show us places that held significance for the Celts, but to us it is an unrevealed language. We can only guess the messages they may convey.

John Hinds Firestation Print Studio Farm Fragments #4 Drypoint with resist and colour wash 10 x 15cm $109 This is part of a larger drypoint etching called Australia is Rich in Iron (RUST!).

Other drypoints humourously evoke patterns of Australian life.

Julia Ellery Hawkes Bay Printmakers Bee Sting Relief, solar plate etching 15 x 10cm $53

Send out the message: “Bees are vital to our survival�.

Julia Jefferson PressNorth Printmakers Structure Collagraph 10 x 15cm $45 Wrapped around an ageing tree, bark forms the structure needed to protect and nurture it to old age.

Julie Stark PressNorth Printmakers Badge of Love Relief print 10 x 15cm $50 With Joni Mitchell’s tribute to ‘Love’ (1 Corinthians 13) in my head, this is particularly poignant, especially in our troubled world right now. ‘Love is kind, love has no evil in mind’.

Julz Henderson Hawkes Bay Printmakers Red awning Relief, drypoint etching, hand coloured 10 x 15cm $35 I have been printing for about 10 years and these prints are inspired from my mother’s drawings in Paris during 1998.

Karen Landt-Isley PressNorth Printmakers Coral Spawning: Magnetic Island Etching 15 x 10cm $66

This image represents the coral spawning on Magnetic Island, October 2015.

Karen Neal Firestation Print Studio Cockatoo Etching with aquatint 10 x 15cm $58 Sulphur Crested Cockatoos have such character and they are very common in my local area so I have chosen this etched portrait for my postcard.

Kathleen Munson Firestation Print Studio Hill Climb Linocut print 15 x 10cm $25

My beloved was most impressed when he saw pictures of cars in a gallery. At last an interesting subject instead of nudes and nature. So here he is in his Sprite.

Kathy Boyle Hawkes Bay Printmakers With Love Intaglio, relief, collage 15 x 10cm $50

We so frequently sign the back of the postcard “ with love XXXOOO” I decided to break with convention and put my message on the front.

Kerrie Cleverdon PressNorth Printmakers Hi from Townsville Linocut print 10 x 15cm $50 I have taken the postcard concept literally, producing a print in the style of a postcard from the 1940’s showing the tropical nature of Townsville.

Laurel McKenzie PressNorth Printmakers Kha-chinnga ii Woodcut print 10 x 15cm $150 Wonder Woman breaks her chains again!!

Lisa Feyen Hawkes Bay Printmakers The code of girl Etching, chine-collĂŠ, encastic 10 x 15cm $50 The concepts reflected in this work are bound together by threads of memory and language. These threads form a network connecting the cultural issues of gender and identity, framing and defining us.

Lisa Feyen Hawkes Bay Printmakers I am (o)the(_r_) Etching, chine-collĂŠ 15 x 10cm $50

The feminine gaze rests on and directly challenges the viewer; who is looking at who?

Liz Batliwalla Firestation Print Studio Marsupials Linocut print 10 x 15cm $63 With an interest in children’s book illustration I created this image to have a freshness of style achieved with simple lines and a black and white palette.

Lynn Scott-Cumming PressNorth Printmakers

Whisper Drypoint etching 10 x 15cm $70 I’ve become fascinated by the process of etching on scraps of acetate cut from supermarket packaging so I’ve used this technique to capture a small part of the marine environment.

Lynne Wilburn Hawkes Bay Printmakers Birds eye view Linocut, collagraph with deep emboss 10 x 15cm $50 This image is a ‘spin off’ from a larger print exhibited in the ‘Across the ditch’ exhibition. It is inspired by the long flight that the ‘Welcome swallows’ made during their migration from Australia to New Zealand in the early 1900’s.

Maggie Dawson Hawkes Bay Printmakers

Kowhailock Medium mezzotint, collagraph 10 x 15cm $50 My inspiration comes from the seed pods hanging in the winter Kowhai trees like dreadlocks.

Margaret Genever PressNorth Printmakers

Aquarius II Digital print 10 x 15cm $75 The constellation images were never immutable and Aquarius is from a complete reworking of the star map currently in progress, which reflect contemporary issues.

Margaret Robertson PressNorth Printmakers Frangipani Glory Relief print 15 x 10cm $85

My work is inspired by the natural beauty that often surrounds us in our own backyard.

Margie Marks Firestation Print Studio Paradise - NZ Linocut print 10 x 15cm $46 It’s 7am on the Queen Charlotte Track, New Zealand, with the fresh morning air & the birds waking!

Paradise!!!!

Margot Laver PressNorth Printmakers I love the live clams on the reef Etching, chiné-colle 10 x 15cm $60 Global warming is a worry for me. I am willing to deny myself many luxuries if we can get the planet back into balance.

Marj Imlach Firestation Print Studio

Malcolm in the Middle Linocut print 10 x 15cm $25 Malcolm in the Middle is my comment on the political situation of our Prime Minister Mr Turnbull. My print references The Scream, by Edvard Munch.

Maureen King Firestation Print Studio ‌ walking the Bluff Linocut print 15 x 10cm $40

The Bluff has been a meeting place, a point of departure and signalling beacon for hundreds of years. There is an exposed and a protected side to the elements of Bass Strait. It is a place of contemplation.

Maxine Smith PressNorth Printmakers Waiting Etching, chinĂŠ-colle 15 x 10cm $80

I saw people waiting at the railway station with Sydney Harbour in the background. I thought they should turn around.

Moira Paton Hawkes Bay Printmakers Flora Offset, relief print 10 x 15cm $47 I am a retired art teacher finally starting to experiment and develop my own printmaking ideas. This print was inspired by American artist Jim Dine’s botanical images.

Myra Kaufman Firestation Print Studio CrÊpuscule Collagraph, stencil 10 x 15cm $58 My collagraphs are inspired by family stories. The lace I use in my work alludes to my family’s new beginnings as migrants and also to the comfortable life they had before the Holocaust.

Norman McLean Hawkes Bay Printmakers Different Strokes Solar etching 10 x 15cm $40 Much of my work is based on imaginative imagery, frequently drawn from mythical, religious and classical sources. Symbolic motifs and whimsical elements are stylistically typical.

Nyrel Saunders Firestation Print Studio Autumn Collagraph 15 x 10cm $58

This image is a three colour viscosity print using the three primary colours. Viscosity printing allows the inks to sometimes blend and produce a greater range of colour.

Pam Hastings Hawkes Bay Printmakers Les Fleurs Collagraph 10 x 15cm $40 After several years of experimenting with various forms of printmaking, I am now focusing on the textures and colours of collagraphs.

Penn Moore Hawkes Bay Printmakers Skinks at home Relief print, collage 10 x 15cm $45 I have been a printer for 25 years.

These prints are when on Kapiti Island, I opened the outside loo door. Inside hundreds of skinks clung to every surface.

Rachael Stone Hawkes Bay Printmakers Mission Juno Drypoint etching 10 x 15cm $50 NASA’s spacecraft recently arrived at Jupiter. It’s named Juno, as is my young daughter. Space travel and children – creating hope and ever inspiring our worlds.

Rhonda Stevens PressNorth Printmakers Shifting Moments Multiplate collagraph 10 x 15cm $69 Intrigued with the overlays of thoughts we encounter daily I use the commingling of collagraphs and process to illicit the changing perspectives in our search for a sense of identity.

Rita Wearn Hawkes Bay Printmakers A Kiwi Icon Woodcut, flax paper 15 x 10cm $50

A postcard does well to showcase our unusual and unique creatures, especially a bird that doesn’t fly and wanders around in the dark!

Robin Ezra Firestation Print Studio Tawny Frogmouth Intaglio print 15 x 10cm $46

My postcard depicts a species of frogmouth native to Australia that is found throughout the Australian mainland and Tasmania. The image began as a detailed drawing adapted to photopolymer plate.

Robyn Tillman Hawkes Bay Printmakers Bracken Monotype print 15 x 10cm $67

I was inspired to use the monotype process to capture the decaying layers of bracken and ferns, seen typically in New Zealand native forests.

Rosalie Thompson Hawkes Bay Printmakers

Windswept Monoprint, solar plate 10 x 15cm $50 I respond to the environment around me. The windswept trees on the Central Hawke’s Bay coast provided the inspiration for these works.

Rosemary Peek Hawkes Bay Printmakers Gnarly Ol Tree Linocut, drypoint etching 10 x 15cm $30 A semester learning printmaking in the final term of a graphic design degree opened up a whole new world for me.

Living in a rural environment, rich in trees and bird life, has provided endless inspiration.

Sally-Anne Davies Hawkes Bay Printmakers

Evening Colour Monoprint, woodcut print 10 x 15cm $50 The natural environment is an endless inspiration for my printmaking. I am intrigued by the patterns in nature, in particular I am drawn to the movement of water.

Sandi Hook PressNorth Printmakers Windmills of my Mind Etching 10 x 15cm $50 Meandering in my mind.

Sandy Fisher PressNorth Printmakers Bilby Etching and aquatint, collagraph 10 x 15cm $60 Once commonly found across Australia, the iconic Bilby now survives in small isolated arid areas. This unique nocturnal marsupial faces an uncertain future.

Sheree Kinlyside PressNorth Printmakers Rift Etching 18 x 13.5cm $90

Empty, pitiful hands in a lap once set aside for love. Her tears enough to soak the dried up land and cause ... a rift.

Sue Martin Firestation Print Studio Night Shadow Hand carved stamps 10 x 15cm $29 A dandelion can quickly change from a yellow flower to a fluffy seed head.

Carved rubber stamps depict these stages, which were then stamped in white ink on black card.

Sue Poggioli Firestation Print Studio Mrs Whistler visits Melbourne Hand painted linocut print 15 x 10cm $86

Whistlers painting of his mother Arrangement in grey and black No 1 made a visit to the National Gallery of Victoria earlier this year. Of course Mr Bean would come along!

Sue Top Firestation Print Studio Stretching Out Linocut print 15 x 10cm $46

The overall theme of my work is detail in nature.

This work studies a particular facet of nature, “leafy things� and mirrors human contacts reaching out to different parts of the globe.

Sylvia Hewitt PressNorth Printmakers Reminiscing Collagraph 15 x 10cm $40

The older you get the more time you have to play in the past and enjoy the now.

Teressa Matthews Hawkes Bay Printmakers

Eternal Life Solar plate etching 10 x 15cm $50 Our afterlife is my current inspiration. Or is it a fascination? Iris’s were believed to bridge us to heaven.

Terrie Reddish Hawkes Bay Printmakers Missing You Letterpress 15 x 10cm $33

Terrie Reddish is a botanical artist, bookbinder and letterpress printer who explores the relationships and shapes of images - symbols - letters.

Tony Fitzsimmons PressNorth Printmakers Arches 3 Sugarlift etching and aquatint 10 x 15cm $30 I have returned to a favourite subject of old architectural landmarks with this work.

Vincent Bray PressNorth Printmakers Winton to Hughenden Relief print 15 x 10cm $80

When driving from Winton to Hughenden I was impressed with the scenery and said to the wife I am going to paint this road. She said what is there to paint!!!

Vivan Broadway Firestation Print Studio Weedy Seadragon Linocut print 15 x 10cm $46

Since the Weedy Seadragon is the marine emblem of Victoria, I thought it would be a good idea for the exchange.

Zelma Schulten PressNorth Printmakers Celebrating Nature Etching and sandpaper aquatint 10 x 15cm $69 Inspired by Jessie Traill’s poetic landscapes, this work celebrates nature in my suburban habitat.

The printing of this catalogue is sponsored by

Hawkes Bay Printmakers This exhibition is toured by Umbrella Studio contemporary arts in collaboration with PressNorth Printmakers, Firestation Print Studio and Hawkes Bay Printmakers along with participating venues Gallery 48 in Townsville and the Community Arts Centre Napier in New Zealand.

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