Postcard from the North & South exhibition catalogue

POSTCARDS FROM THE NORTH AND SOUTH 2017

PressNorth Printmakers, Townsville - Queensland Firestation Print Studio, Armadale - Victoria 67th Street Printmakers, Indianapolis - Indiana

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Postcards from the North and South 2017 PressNorth Printmakers, Townsville - Queensland Firestation Print Studio, Armadale - Victoria 67th Street Printmakers, Indianapolis - Indiana

Anastasia Kotzapavlidis Firestation Print Studio

Lets Dig Linocut 10 x 15cm $25 Both my hubby and father were very much ‘hands on’ and so there were always tools around me. This is part of a series to honour them.

Angela Little

PressNorth Printmakers

Desert Garden Linocut 10 x 15cm $70

Reflecting upon the drought in Townsville - wishing I had a desert garden so all my plants would survive.

Ann Bartholomeusz PressNorth Printmakers

Boy Linocut 10 x 15cm $70

Boy stands on the cusp of becoming a man.

Aren Straiger

67th Street Printmakers

Purple Tulip Etching 10 x 15cm $110 A graphic designer for more than 30 years, Aren turned her design skills to printmaking. Extending her creativity into new medium, she enjoys screen printing and etching.

Aren Straiger

67th Street Printmakers

Syd’s Screen print 10 x 15cm $110 A graphic designer for more than 30 years, Aren turned her design skills to printmaking. Extending her creativity into new medium, she enjoys screen printing and etching.

Shadows and reflections create their own narrative.

Barbara Pierce

PressNorth Printmakers

Up Close Digital print on Arches 15 x 10cm $100

Beata Slifierz

Firestation Print Studio

A dance with the past #2 Series 3 Multiplate linocut 10 x 15cm $200 This print 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

After the Storm Relief 15 x 10cm $50

After the storm, vivid colours emerging from the bark of a Eucalypt. Colours shifting with the rain and the clarity of the light.

Refreshed, cleansed. A slip of brightness when the sun re-emerges, a window opens, exposing what lies beneath.

Belinda Kopietz

Firestation Print Studio

Working directly from the Life Model, my figurative imagery is searching for potency. What to allow in and what to leave out, an insistent questioning.

Does a particular pose communicate life force, strength, vitality or emotion?

Thinking Woman Linocut and chine collé 15 x 10cm $110

Carmel O’Connor Firestation Print Studio

Greetings from Victoria Linocut 10 x 15cm $35 My postcard refers to travelling back in time; learning about history’s reflection on contemporary issues. Greetings from VICTORIA.

My work and imagination sometimes run away with me as I create bright, colourful pieces, which have become my trademark. My goal is to make others smile and feel good.

Cathy Kravitz

67th Street Printmakers

Claire Drypoint and watercolour 15 x 10cm $50 My work and imagination sometimes run away with me as I create bright, colourful pieces, which have become my trademark. My goal is to make others smile and feel good.

Cathy Kravitz

67th Street Printmakers

Russ Drypoint and watercolour 15 x 10cm $50

Cathy Kravitz

67th Street Printmakers

The Southwest Woodblock 10 x 15cm $50 My work and imagination sometimes run away with me as I create bright, colourful pieces, which have become my trademark. My goal is to make others smile and feel good.

Edith May

Firestation Print Studio

Dear John Linocut 10 x 15cm $35 This is a reference to the letters American servicemen used to get on their return from war to find their partners gone. I was thinking of my birth land, (NZ), and realised I was never going back to live there.

Gabriel Smith

I find myself constantly photographing details of rock, whether they are in a natural setting or have been manipulated by man.

This work comes from a fascination with Italian marble that I saw on a recent trip to Tuscany.

PressNorth Printmakers

Marble 3 colour plate solar etching 15 x 10cm $110 Reflection gives us time to look at what has been.

Gai Copeman

PressNorth Printmakers

Reflections Linocut 15 x 10cm $100

The Galilee Basin coal mining is devastating on both a regional and global scale .... and Townsville celebrates.

Gerald Soworka

PressNorth Printmakers

Sorry couldn’t do a print. Gone mining.

Collage, digital, linocut on found object 15 x 10cm $145 Making prints of all types is a joy, but etching stole my heart from the very beginning.

Gina Laite

67th Street Printmakers

Wishing you were here...

Etching and watercolour 15 x 10cm $35

Making prints of all types is a joy, but etching stole my heart from the very beginning.

Gina Laite

67th Street Printmakers

Road Trip Etching, watercolour and aquatint 15 x 10cm $35 She left an orchid impression is an embossed study of a moth orchid from the Cairns Botanical Gardens, North Queensland.

Hannah Murray

PressNorth Printmakers

She left an orchid impression Linocut and handcolouring 15 x 10cm $85

The inspiration for this print arises from a recent trip from Melbourne through the Gippsland Valley to Traralgon. I was surprised by the number of cows grazing contentedly by the side of the busy highway.

Irene Rae

PressNorth Printmakers

Pastoral scene Linocut 15 x 10cm $100

My art is both idealistic and romantic, traveling the trajectory of my personal experience and perspective.

James Hubbard

67th Street Printmakers

Oceania Pochoir, linocut on kitakata 15 x 10cm $170

Postcard from Cathedral Ranges, Victoria. Wonderful walking, climbing or just gazing at this beautiful range of rocks. Look out over the valley and enjoy the views.

Jan Liesfield

Firestation Print Studio

Cathedral Ranges Linocut 15 x 10cm $35

Jennifer Steurzl

Firestation Print Studio

Littoral Etching 15 x 10cm $120

The etching “Littoral� is my response to living near to the Brisbane River and Morton Bay, and experiencing the way the environment changes over time. Symbolic elements evoke the significance and mystery of the natural world.

My cat at night becomes uncanny. Watching the unknown and unseen by humankind.

Jill O’Sullivan

PressNorth Printmakers

Night Vigil Engraving on vinyl 15 x 10cm $50

Jill Sauerburger

67th Street Printmakers

Bastet Colour reduction woodblock 10 x 15cm $110 A love of nature inspires my artwork.

I enjoy the challenge of trying to capture its beauty in stylized ways, combining my background in graphic design with fine art.

Jo Lankester

PressNorth Printmakers

In Process Solar plate etching with viscosity roll 10 x 15cm $85 ‘In process’ was created at a recent Solar Plate Etching workshop facilitated

by Janet Parker Smith. I was inspired to produce a print reflecting the experience, using art journal notes and sketches.

Joan Mullarvey

Firestation Print Studio

Banksia Study #1 Linocut 15 x 10cm $50

My subject matter is nature.

Whether it is a landscape or flora, I use observational drawings to look beyond the obvious to deconstruct form and texture. My aim is to inspire people to look more closely at the beauty of our dry, complex and beautiful land.

Jody Bruns

67th Street Printmakers

Bicentennial Bovine Copper etching 10 x 15cm $110 I am excited to collaborate with Press North Printmakers and Firestation Print Studio. My experience includes etching, relief printing and screen printing. I live in Carmel, Indiana, USA.

Jody Bruns

67th Street Printmakers

Unigirl Copper etching 10 x 15cm $110 I am excited to collaborate with Press North Printmakers and Firestation Print Studio. My experience includes etching, relief printing and screen printing. I live in Carmel, Indiana, USA.

John Hinds

Firestation Print Studio

Primary consumption Coloured drypoint 10 x 15cm $250

Consumer products, referring to Australia’s prosperity, are playfully highlighted in primary colours.

My work reflects my love of nature. Birds and plants are favorite subjects. I find the thought process behind my reduction prints very intriguing. I am a potter as well as a printmaker.

Judy DeGan

67th Street Printmakers

Enduring Woodblock 15 x 10cm $55

A discarded leaf, once a small part of a beautiful tree, remains intriguing even as debris found lying on the ground.

Julia Jefferson

PressNorth Printmakers

Debris Etching 15 x 10cm $85

Karen Landt-Isley

PressNorth Printmakers

Starfish: Orpheus Island Print Release 10 x 15cm $90

The image reflects the tranquillity of nature.

Kathleen Munson Firestation Print Studio

Waipu is an extremely beautiful estuary and beach with a little town and a not so beautiful 1957 decommissioned fire station. I like the idea that it has been saved as a shop selling Art Deco, leading to the question “What is beauty?”

Why Not? Linocut, collage and hand colouring 15 x 10cm $70 I ike the various black birds found in Australia. I used this crow to experiment with the spit-biting technique.

Kerrie Cleverdon

PressNorth Printmakers

Crow Etching and aquatint 15 x 10cm $70

The feeling we get when we see a boat sailing on a windy day.

Laura Castell

PressNorth Printmakers

White Caps Reduction linocut and machine stitching 15 x 10cm $90

Current work explores imagery that is influenced by reflections on the natural world. Pattern, textures forms and colours all derive from references that I find visually and structurally intriguing.

Lauren Kussro

67th Street Printmakers

Coral Bouquet Colour intaglio 15 x 10cm $110

Linda Chandler

The dragonfly spends the first two years in the water as a nymph. It then climbs from the water following the moon to the surface and transforms into a winged insect with great agility, speed and elegance.

Firestation Print Studio

From the Riparian Vegetation Blind embossed linocut, chine collĂŠ and silver leaf with silver leaf 15 x 10cm $100 My work is influenced by the nature that surrounds me. Water, in all its infinite beauty, is a constant subject. My experience in printmaking includes etching, relief and screen printing.

Lisa VanMeter

67th Street Printmakers

Lilypad Shadows Screen print 15 x 10cm $75

Lisa VanMeter

67th Street Printmakers

Jade Sea Screen print 10 x 15cm $75 My work is influenced by the nature that surrounds me. Water, in all its infinite beauty, is a constant subject.

My experience in printmaking includes etching, relief and screen printing.

Liz Norris

Firestation Print Studio

Victorian Countryside Drypoint 15 x 10cm $40

West Victorian Country -  big skies, golden light, distant views, gentle hills, fertile farms, a solitary eagle and flocks of cockatoos‌ Reminding me of several years in gold mining country, restoring a derelict cottage and making a garden.

Lorie Lee Andrews 67th Street Printmakers

Adaptability Etching with watercolour 10 x 15cm $100 My art is a direct result of my reflection on life events and spiritual seeking. I see art as a way to experience joy, healing and inspiration.

Lorie Lee Andrews 67th Street Printmakers

Princess Zaida Etching with watercolour 10 x 15cm $100 My art is a direct result of my reflection on life events and spiritual seeking. I see art as a way to experience joy, healing and inspiration.

Fascinations come and go.

This one’s for the turtles that swim in our rivers.

Lynn Scott-Cumming PressNorth Printmakers

Once Upon a Time Drypoint and etching 15 x 10cm $90

Margaret Genever PressNorth Printmakers

God set out to create the world and took the dog along Digital print 10 x 15cm $85 The constellation images have changed over millennia to suit current circumstances of observers. Instigated by a Kato Indian creation story, God is from a new version of the Western map.

Margaret Robertson PressNorth Printmakers

I am often inspired by the wildlife that share our surroundings. The unique looking Swamphen, commonly found around freshwater swamps, streams and marshes is depicted here fossicking amongst the reeds.

Into the Swamp Linocut 15 x 10cm $60 At the end of each day the red sun will set in the West.

Peace - Love - Joy

Margie Marks

Firestation Print Studio

Sunset Linocut 15 x 10cm $100

Margot Laver

PressNorth Printmakers

‘My impossible hound’ Etching and aquatint 10 x 15cm $100 While doodling on an aluminium plate with bitumen resist I developed a print that looked more like ‘my impossible hound’ than anything else.

I am appalled at Humans’ appetite for war, so send a postcard out for peace.

Marj Imlach

Firestation Print Studio

Peace Linocut 15 x 10cm $50

Maxine Smith

PressNorth Printmakers

Tosca Dreaming Linocut and print release 10 x 15cm $85

The body language of dogs never ceases to entertain me.

Melissa Nees Hauger 67th Street Printmakers

In Flight Woodcut and lithograph 10 x 15cm $75 I am inspired by the beauty in everyday life that is often overlooked. I enjoy interpreting objects and scenes in a new light. Everything and everyone has a story to tell.

Myra Kaufman

Firestation Print Studio

Dusk Collagraph 10 x 15cm $85 Lace motifs figure often in my printmaking images. The lace used comes from a collection belonging to my mother and grandmother who came to Australia as refugees after World War 2 and made a living as dressmakers. The lace has become a symbol for me of a new life in a new land.

Myra Perrin

67th Street Printmakers

Line and Shape Etching 10 x 15cm $70 Viewing the landscape while flying inspires my work. Shapes, contrast and undulating lines leads to my interpretation of Southern Indiana.

Memories of holidaying in Bali Christmas 1985 to celebrate youngest son’s 15th birthday before his attendance at boarding school in Charters Towers, Queensland.

Nyrel Saunders

Firestation Print Studio

Rice Paddies Bali Drypoint and hand colouring 15 x 10cm $140

Patrick Flaherty

67th Street Printmakers

Mirror Study Linocut 10 x 15cm $55

Flaherty’s subject matter documents the world around him with a focus on urban landscapes, his garden and home life.

For this exchange, he did a self-portrait.

Reflecting how we are continually clutching at another moment.

Rhonda Stevens

PressNorth Printmakers

Another Moment Multiplate collograph 15 x 10cm $115 I based this print of the Blue Mosque in Istanbul on a sketch I made there. On first sight I was surprised that the Mosque was not blue, but then the 20000 blue tiles that line the interior overwhelmed me.

Richard White

Firestation Print Studio

Blue Mosque Linocut 15 x 10cm $50

Enclosed in the vessels is female intuition, knowledge and power identified by the archetype of the doll.

Vasilisa feeds the wooden doll when in need of these attributes.

Sandi Hook

PressNorth Printmakers

Vessel for Vasilisa Etching and aquatint 15 x 10cm $100

Sandy Fisher

PressNorth Printmakers

hopping-mouse Etching 10 x 15cm $75 The Dusky hopping-mouse is one of Australia’s most beautiful and rarest creatures. It avoids the heat of the day by sheltering in deep burrows below the inland desert sand.

I imagine Heaven will have some nice waves...

Stephen Bennett

PressNorth Printmakers

The Breakers Linocut 15 x 10cm $70

Sue Martin

Firestation Print Studio

Nasturtium Screenprint, carved stamps 10 x 15cm $35 Tropaeolum known as nasturtium means ‘nose twister.’ Named by Carl Linnaeus, it reminded him of a Roman custom of setting up a trophy pole called tropeaum. On this the armour and weapons of the vanquished foe were hung.

The round leaves resembled shields and the flowers, bloodstained helmets.

Sue Poggioli

Firestation Print Studio

‘Frida in Sydney’ is one of an art museum series that play homage to iconic paintings.

‘Self Portrait with Monkeys’ shows four adoring monkeys representing a group of students who so admired their teacher that they became known as Los Fridos.

Frida in Sydney Hand coloured linocut 15 x 10cm $125

Sue Top

Firestation Print Studio

Inside Journey Linocut, collage, watercolour 15 x 10cm $85

My world is full of leaves. I have been exploring native plant leaves in bushy places using my eyes, a macro lens, a magnifying glass and a microscope. The variety, delicacy and intricacy of what I have discovered has inspired this Postcard to you.

Susan Fisher

67th Street Printmakers

Sunflower Bud Linoleum reduction 10 x 15cm $110 Growing up an Indiana farm girl, I learned to love nature and animals at an early age. My artwork has evolved from being a professional photographer to a printmaker.

Suzanne Shelley Firestation Print Studio

Wicked Mousie Screenprint and hand colouring 10 x 15cm $85 Miss Mousie is not who she may first appear to be. The innocent exterior belies a looming and menacing darker side. Double, double toil and trouble.

Sylvia Hewitt

PressNorth Printmakers

Sugar Shaking Collagraph 10 x 15cm $85

An integral icon of Townsville. The sugar shaker was my first visual of Townsville 30 years ago, for miles away.

Tom Brown

67th Street Printmakers

Witness Tree Reduction relief 10 x 15cm $100

I have been creating art most of my life.

My art is of people and places. My landscapes are scenes that I have a strong urge to preserve.

Tom Brown

67th Street Printmakers

Gettysburg Ghost Reduction relief 10 x 15cm $100

I have been creating art most of my life. My art is of people and places. My landscapes are scenes that I have a strong urge to preserve.

I have been creating art most of my life. My art is of people and places. My landscapes are scenes that I have a strong urge to preserve.

Tom Brown

67th Street Printmakers

Bloody Lane Reduction relief 15 x 10cm $100

Tom Brown

67th Street Printmakers

Abe Reduction relief 10 x 15cm $100

I have been creating art most of my life. My art is of people and places. My landscapes are scenes that I have a strong urge to preserve.

Tony Fitzsimmons PressNorth Printmakers

Turkana Miss Photopolymer etching 10 x 15cm $70

Ms A is originally from Kenya, and has sat for several portrait studies, exhibited by me over the last five years.

An afternoon spent on Lake Julius admiring the stillness of the water and the reflection on the water.

Vincent Bray

PressNorth Printmakers

Reflections Copper etching 15 x 10cm $100

Wendy Leason

Firestation Print Studio

Apparition Linocut 10 x 15cm $145

I was thinking of a lighthouse at sea appearing through the mist.

Zelma Schulten

PressNorth Printmakers

Dawn Etching and sandpaper aquatint 10 x 15cm $85

Nature inspires my art. The interplay between light and dark fascinated me during a morning walk through the Rain Trees.

The image simply offers the audience a chance to consider a quiet and tranquil moment in their day.

Zoe Snyder

Firestation Print Studio

The Quiet View Collage, letterpress, wood block, monotype, chine collĂŠ 15 x 10cm $45

This exhibition is toured by Umbrella Studio contemporary arts in collaboration with PressNorth Printmakers, Firestation Print Studio and 67th Street Printmakers along with participating venues Umbrella Studio, Firestation Print Studio and Indianapolis Art Center.

Front Cover Image: Rhonda Stevens, Another Moment, Multiplate collograph, 15 x 10cm Open Add Tel Web

Mon-Fri 9-5 / Sat-Sun 9-1 482 Flinders St, Townsville 4772 7109 www.umbrella.org.au

Umbrella Studio acknowledges the financial support of the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.