Wanderlust + Manhattan exhibition catalogue II by Umbrella Studio

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Logo is for the show in New York with work from Umbrella

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Manhattan Graphics Center, New York and Umbrella Studio, Townsville (Australia) Exchange Show 2015

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Wanderlust Logo is for the show in Townsville with work from MGC

New York

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Wanderlust

Townsville

New York

Logo is for the show in New York with work from Umbrella

The thirty-three works by thirty-three MGC artists in this exhibition are a representative sample of the diverse impulses and modalities that are the hallmarks of prints made at MGC. Etchings and mezzotints, silkscreen and paper lithography, linocuts, photogravure, chine collé, crayon transfer, monotype and collagraph: what you see here is a kind of grammar of expressive possibilities exercised by thirty-one very different sensibilities. We work next to one another in our comfortable studio, chat amiably (or almost amiably), feed and water together, yet remain committed to very singular visions. There is a great delicacy in some of this work but also a stripped down rawness that seems to butt up against the very notion of fine printmaking. Some of the work is surprisingly sensual, some coldly experimental. Some works seem to engage in quiet dialogues with the deep and rich history of printmaking and some prints shout and scream and froth at their little printmaking mouths.

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Unlike our Australian comrades who work at Townsville, the artists who print at MGC do so not only in New York, one of the major art centers of the world, but in an atelier just a few blocks from Times Square, a sort of de facto center of the city’s energy, and right across the street from the state of the art headquarters of The New York Times. All this centrality notwithstanding, there is a certain comfortable distance to be found in most of the work made here. The vibrant Chelsea gallery scene is just blocks away, and yet most of the MGC artists shy away from the flavor of the month syndrome that often infects the contemporary art scene. Some of this may have to do with the staid and measured quality of the printmaking process and its longstanding connection to tradition and some of it may simply be that most MGC printmakers answer to no one but themselves. This doesn’t mean that MGC artists don’t regularly submit work to exhibitions--on the contrary, the wall space set aside for announcements of members’ shows is always full--but rather that the guiding aesthetic spirit here is almost always individual rather than collective. Member artists pursue their own muses, doggedly or casually, and if this means there is the occasional cul de sac or blind alley at the end of the journey, so be it.

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Manhattan Graphics Center and Its Mission The Manhattan Graphics Center (or MGC) was founded in 1986 and is a year shy of its thirtieth anniversary as an artist-run printmaking atelier. Our mission is simple enough: we exist to promote the art of fine printmaking, to offer classes and workshop space, to provide scholarships to aspiring printmakers and exhibition opportunities for members’ solo shows, curated thematic or group shows, and exchange shows such as Wanderlust. We have over three hundred artist-members and are open seven days a week for just over eleven months of the year.

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The reality of sustaining artist vibrancy is intensified by the challenges of being isolated geographically. Townsville is 1300 km/808 miles from the state’s capital of Brisbane and over 2000 km/1243 miles from the next major city of Sydney. I imagine that many of the printmakers based in North Queensland dream about living in a cultural powerhouse like Hong Kong or Singapore or New York, but after spending time in these cities, I realised that the isolation of Townsville – monotony to some – is a catalyst for creativity.

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In New York art is a basic fact of everyday life, while in Townsville art making is an incongruity, hidden in metal sheds or under a high-set Queenslander. Producing art far from the commercial benefits of a vibrant cultural capitol relies on a gut level need for art. In cultural capitals like New York, creativity and original thinking are accepted and valued parts of mainstream life. Townsville is a conservative, sports-mad fisherman kind of a place, with minimal arts infrastructure, and yet we are a vibrant creative generator. North Queensland artists often don’t have funding or precedent; material ambition is not the driving force behind art making here – so the result is something fresh and original. Townsville lights a fire under artists to produce and continually raise the bar on self-directed arts practice and projects. North Queensland has a dynamic printmaking community which has been developing over a long period of time and in 2013 formed PressNorth Printmakers, a Townsville based printmaking group comprising of 30 + members actively exhibiting, teaching and sharing. Printmaking is widely celebrated within Australia with Townsville being one of the most active printmaking communities with artists winning awards in recognition of their skills across many mediums including artist books. Umbrella Studio has been part of the history of printmaking in North Queensland since 1986 starting as a working studio for a group of five emerging Townsville printmakers. It was the only contemporary visual arts organisation located outside of a capital city. Umbrella is the only professionally equipped studio space available to Townsville based artists, and for nearly 30 years has been a launch pad for regional artists.

This visual cacophony of course suits the even greater cacophony of our neighborhood and our city. New York is rarely a tranquil and contemplative place in which to work, and yet surprisingly there is tranquility and even stillness in some of this work (perhaps as a reaction to or balm for the manic energy of the city). Abstraction and representation vie for dominance. The densest silkscreen colors wrestle with the sparest bone black etching inks. The most delicate organic forms jostle with brutal chromatic flatness. The point has probably been made by now: the artists at MGC carve their blocks, ink their plates and work their squeegees at least in part as a reaction to the hugeness of the city around them, whether as a means of embracing that immensity or negating it by means of private graphic languages. Perhaps all printmakers do this; perhaps this is just a way of coping with the immensity of the world around us, whether we live far from a metropolis or in its pulsing heart.

Wanderlust showcases the skills of 21 printmakers currently living and working in Townsville and surrounding areas. This exhibition explores a diverse range of themes displaying the variety of styles in the printmaking profession. Each printmaker has personalised their signature methodologies to produce work uniquely their own. Such as Big Red, a linocut print with gouache wash by Margot Lavor’s and Vince Bray’s use of relief print on Perspex for his work titled TreeTalk. Kay Wantanbe’s unique technique work, Reclaim combines found object stencils, Rubber block, Drypoint and Chine-collé. Additional Wanderlust participants are Alan Junior, Angela Cheung, Gabriel Smith, Jan Daly, Jill O’Sullivan, the collaborative team of Jo Lankester and Hannah Murray, Laura Castell, Laurel McKenzie, Margaret Robertson, Rhonda Stephens, Sandi Hook, Sandra Wright, Sheree Kinlyside, Tommy Pau, Zelma Schulten and Margaret Genever. Because we are isolated geographically, the exchange of creative skills and resources is critical for the professional development and exposure of our artists. The aim of travelling Wanderlust to exhibit and exchange with Manhattan Graphics Center artists in New York is an opportunity to expand audiences, share an appreciation of printmaking and strengthen this significant international collaboration for future projects; thank you for the opportunity to spread our wings.

Rich Turnbull Manhattan Graphics Center

Vicki Salisbury Director

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Franco Marinai

Abby Dubow

Born and raised in Florence (Italy), after a doctorate in Political Science he moved to New York City devoting time to experimental filmmaking, photography, printmaking, and artists’ books. His latest project is a series of photogravures of an imaginary journey through a universe whose fundamental law – gravity is the filling of voids. franco@marinai.com www.marinai.com

I’ve worked as an artist my entire life in New York City and Paris. My current focus is on one of a kind prints: monoprints and monotypes that combine elements of found materials and assorted techniques. I studied art with Paul Feeley, Tony Smith, Reuben Tam and Vincent Longo as well as printmaking with Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17 in Paris and Janet Loeb at Parsons. My work is in numerous public and private collections and I have won awards for excellence and achievement in the arts.

Gravity (Springtime), 2015 Chemigraph, Photogravure and Chine Collé

Rich Turnbull

Matthias Kern

Rich is an art historian, printmaker, book artist and experimental photographer. He teaches art history at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and is a staff lecturer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Born and raised in Germany I have strong German printmaking roots which influence my work today. Art is an expression of the soul, and my art is the mirror of myself. I want to give the viewer enough space to to see and feel and come to their own conclusion about what it means to them. I want my art to inspire and move, to give and take.

www.furiousdaypress.com Overload Variant, 2014 Silkscreen

matthiaskernny@gmail.com www.matthiaskern-art.com Renewal, 2014 Aquatint and Etching

Hiding Places Monotype, Collagraph and Etching

David Thomas

Ruth Moscovitch

David is a ceramicist, painter, and printmaker who resides in New York City. His work has been exhibited in the U.S., India and Japan, and is included in the collections of the Library of Congress, Anheuser-Busch, 9/11 Memorial Museum and a number of private collections in the U.S., Europe, and Japan.

Ruth Moscovitch is a printmaker and labor arbitrator. For urban landscapes, she uses traditional techniques: intaglio, aquatint, chine-collé and soft and hard grounds. Her “pieces” series use etched copper plates printed with transparent inks and many overlays; her New York bridges are done in linocut.

Suburban Hell, 2015 Serigraph, Paper Litho and Collagraph

www.ruthmoscovitch.com Manhattan Bridge, 2012 Linocut

Yasuyo Tanaka

Gillie Holme

Yasuyo is an artist and educator focused on humanitarian and environmental concerns. Since the March 11th Japan earthquake, she has been creating her work with local people concerning local issues. She is interested in Australian uranium mines, nuclear issues, and the problems aborigines face. Her work is exhibited internationally.

Born in india & forever influenced by that country. She is a reclusive & committed print maker. intrigued & inspired by her various ongoing collections of pocket knives, banknotes, fake diamonds, stamps, coins, tintypes, cigarette papers etc. Currently in the throes of her mad crayon lab creations invented @ MGC, which often involve the marriage of caran d’ache with the Yellow Pages.

key4yoyo@gmail.com http://yasuyoart.blogspot.com Bonding 1 Photo Etching, Collagraph and Burned Edge

gillieholme@gmail.com Mappa Mundi, 2015 Unique Crayon Transfer

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Bill Waitzman I am a printmaker, painter and illustrator. The images in my silkscreen prints are hand-drawn and transferred to screens photographically. I enjoy the challenge of transcending the inherent flatness of silkscreen to create a painterly image. www.williamwaitzmanprints.com Early Morning, Variation, 2015 | Silkscreen

Kirsten Flaherty Kirsten resides in New York while working as an artist and printmaker. In her most recent series of mezzotints, she has focused on depicting pit bulls in the hope to inspire a more positive view of a nationally misunderstood animal. These portraits inform viewers of the kind nature of these gentle hounds, and further encourage reform for the cultural stigma of the pit bull.

Kit Callahan

Larry Schulte

Kit studied at University of the Arts in London. She has exhibited her paintings, drawings and etchings in the US, Europe, India and Australia. Her work is in the collections of the Arts Council of Great Britain, Bolton Museum & Gallery, U.K., US Consulate, S.A., NY Public Library, Prints Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photography Div. and 911 Museum, N.Y.

Larry is a Nebraska-born painter and fiber artist who often uses mixed media and printmaking in his work. He has undergraduate degrees in art and mathematics and a Masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Degree in art education from the University of Nebraska-Kearney, and a Ph.D. from the University of Kansas. He has exhibited throughout the U.S. and abroad and is included in museum, corporate and private collections. Additional information about the artist is available on his web site:

Untitled | Etching

www.larryschulte.com.

kirstenflaherty1@gmail.com

Heart Scan | Unique Screenprint

www. kirstenflaherty.com Otis III, 2015 | Mezzotint

Thomas Stavovy Edgar Hartley Edgar was born in Lubbock, Texas in 1963. He received his BA from the University of Kansas in 1986 and continued his Masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s studies in Nanjing, China. Edgar has exhibited in the US and abroad including the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore and the HOLLAR Gallery in Prague. Edgar lives and works in New York. Renunciation 1 | Silkscreen and Paper Lithography

Gerry Wall Originally a painter, I began to explore printmaking in 2006 and developed a love of etching. I find inspiration in textures and objects that surround me. BFA from Upsala College. Work exhibited in US and abroad. I live and work in New York City. Tango | Hand-colored Etching

I use etching and montype techniques in abstract explorations of line and form, emphasizing organic deveopment and controlled expression of energy through my hand. I seek to invent a world based on my thoughts and feelings and the properites of the media. Down Under, 2015 | Unique Etching

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Margaret Nussbaum

Bob Shore

Margaret is a founding member of MGC and has worked as a silkscreener and instructor since its inception. Her screen prints have been exhibited both nationally and internationally and are in the collections of the Zimmerli Art Museum, the New York Historical Society, and the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.

Robert Shore has been working at Manhattan Graphics Center since 1997. Most of his work during that time has been representational. In the last few years he has been using the computer to develop images and then print them as intaglio (drypoint or engraving) or paper lithography.

Manhattan Bridge, 2012

bobshore@gmail.com

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Joan Greenfield Joan is based in New York, works hard, travels when possible, and wears many hats. Sisyphus, 2015 Collagraph and Rubber Stamp

Towpath Drypoint and Photopolymer Plate

Moses Ros-Suárez

Sigrid Sperzel

I have had extensive experience as a printmaker, working in a variety of techniques from etching, aquatint, and woodcut to silkscreen. I am best known for paintings and sculptures that transform common subjects into expressionistically rich images. I explore themes that resonate on both a personal and universal level--preserving beauty and abundance, discovering individual and national identities.

Sigrid is a printmaker and book artist. She grew up in Germany and later relocated to New York where she currently pursues her work at the Manhattan Graphics Center. Her prints have been exhibited internationally and are in the permanent collections of the New York Public Library, the New York Historical Society, the Library of Congress, Washington D.C, the Klingspor Museum, Museum for Modern International Book Art, Typography and Calligraphy, Offenbach, Germany, and the Museum of Applied Art / MAK, Frankfurt, Germany.

moses_ros@yahoo.com www.mosesros.com Hell’s Kitchen Pig, 2015 Aquatint

Sigsperzel@gmail.com Crow, 2014 Aquatint

Hannah Landsburgh Hannah Lansburgh (b. 1986) works with found images from supermarket circulars and other societal flotsam to trace the impact of advertising and food on the emotional and physical body. She is currently investigating the influence of the outside world on the inner landscape through Master’s degree studies in social work. Das Beste ab Montag, 2015 Silkscreen

Monika de Vries Gohlke Monika was born and raised in Berlin, Germany. After she came to the United States she attended Parsons School of Design and the Brooklyn Museum Art School. She worked as a textile and home furnishings designer for a number of companies and now focuses exclusively on her own art. She paints in watercolor and creates etchings at the Manhattan Graphics Center. Her work is in numerous private and public institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington D.C. Musa acuminata Aquatint and Etching

Hilary North Hilary is proud to be representing Manhattan Graphics Center. She has been a member for more than 15 years. This particular artwork was inspired by living in Brooklyn’s Chinatown. The cigarette packs combine bright colors, Chinese characters, English phrases and digital bar code. Chinese Cigarettes Paper Lithography

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Phyllis Trout

Paula Praeger

Phyllis earned her B.F.A. from Kansas City Arts Institute and exhibits nationally and internationally. She was a MacDowell Fellow and currently teaches at Friends Seminary and at Parsons School of Design in New York City.

Some of my prints are about my interest in words, combining them to elicit empathy and pathos or to be humorous. I am a lung cancer patient. The text often states my fears about my health and a world that is threatening in many ways. The font must comport with the message. For example: large and bold or small and timid. Because I do screenprints, I chose simple fonts without serifs and small details that collect ink and dry too quickly.

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Untitled, 2015 Monotype and Watercolor

Liz Marraffino

Sarah Plimpton

Liz is a painter, printmaker and ceramic artist whose work has been exhibited in group and solo shows in New York City, Dobbs Ferry, NY, Prague and Amsterdam. She also teaches painting at the JCC in Manhattan, and monotype at Manhattan Graphics Center.

Sarah was born in New York City and divides her time between New York and France. She attended Smith College, Harvard Medical School and Pratt Institute in Manhattan. She works in several media (oil painting, printmaking and artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; books) and is also a poet. Three Galleries show her work on a regular basis - June Kelly in New York, Ute Barth in Zurich and the Ober Gallery in Connecticut.

Wooly Camel, 2011 | Litho Crayon and Aquatint

Untitled | Etching

paua08@gmail.com Platelets Clump, 2014 Silkscreen

Caroline Sheehan

Meredith Mayer

Painter and Printmaker living and working in New York and France. To date I have participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions across the US and Europe.

I have lived in New York my whole life and never tired of looking at it. As a painter and printmaker I find innumerable subjects in the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s streets and buildings from elaborate 19th century stoops to the 21st century glassy towers. Silkscreen seems a natural medium for conveying both the glamour and the grit, of the city.

casheehan@mac.com www.carolynsheehan.com www.reisstudios.com/artists/ carolyn-sheehan/

Phyllis and Victor Merriam Our work arises from an exploration of a specific site over time. We collect images and experiment with emerging and traditional print processes to fully realize the site but retain a sense of immediacy. We present our elements without the context of scale and in ambiguous juxtapositions to give the viewer a path to the rediscovery of familiar things. www.ourownart.com Phyllis@ourownart.com Untitled, 2015 | Etching and Solar Plate

Untitled, 2015 Etching

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Robin Dintiman Vicki Wojcik Vicki began learning printmaking at the Manhattan Graphics Center. She also studied drawing, painting and printmaking at The New School and School of Visual Arts. She is especially interested in monotypes, collagraphs and mixed media, and her work has been in many juried exhibitions in New York. wojcikvicki@gmail.com Untitled | Monotype

Dintiman’s work is characterized by a deep connection to nature. Whether she is working directly with objects found in nature or taking nature as her subject, She strives to capture the intimate, emotional quality of certain natural settings, suffused as they are with time, change, and memory. Dintiman has taught at California College of the Art as well as other CA colleges. She has received fellowships from the Yaddo Corporation, Dorland’s Mountain Colony, and Cooper Union. Her work has been exhibited in museums throughout the country, including the Philadelphia Art Museum, the National Museum for Women in the Arts, the Chrysler Museum, ICPNY and Christie’s. Dorland’s Oak | Photogravure and Collagraph

Nandini grew up in India, and studied at Cornell University (BFA) and Maryland Institute, College of Art (MFA). Her mixed media work incorporates drawing, painting, objects, etching, collagraph and Japanese/Indian woodblock printing. Nandini’s work has been shown in many international cities including New York, New Delhi, Tokyo, and Paris. Calcutta Chronicles, 2014 | Etching

Arrival of Venus ii after Bouguereau et al Archival pigment print

Arrival of Venus i after Vasari et al Archival pigment print

Laure McKenzie Arrival of Venus iii after Esquival Archival pigment print

Nandini Chirimar

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Laure McKenzie The birth of Venus (or Aphrodite) has been a popular subject for artists over 2 millennia, associating women with nature - and the element of water in particular. This series reiterates well-known paintings of the subject in fragments of painted flesh, sky and sea. Venus is literally ‘in her element(s)’.

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Margaret Genever Wanderdogbag was likely born in China but lived in Dundee for a time. He immigrated to OZ via Berlin and Venice. By chance he discovered that people apparently taking photos of the views opposite monuments were in fact making images known as ‘selfies’. The result is a record of his progress across the world. Some favorites are shared here. Wanderdogbag Selfies Drypoint Etching

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New York We drift on this living rock through time and space each day. Our planet and circumstance gives us all we need: Sun, water, air, earth, flora, and fauna. It’s a great shame when we plunder and pillage from this great source of energy, without considering the consequences.

Dreaming of adventure and exploration through the night’s sky. A fondness for children’s story books and film inspires my works. I would like to aknowledge and thank Jill O’Sullivan, Sheree Kinlyside and Jo Lankester for their support and assistance in the creation of this print.

Gaia

Key to the Soul

Lithograph

Etching & Aquatint

Gabriel Smith

Jan Daly

My biggest influence comes from the land around me and Castle Hill has played a large roll in my life as a place to relax, reflect and reconnect.

Culture directs the way in which we interpret what we see while artists hold power to direct the viewer’s gaze, and therefore innocence is lost to the politics of art.

Sunrise on Castle Hill Multi-plate Collagraph & Drypoint Etching

On a wing and a prayer Etching

Jill O’Sullivan

This work reflects upon my abiding interest in travel, the promise of new places to be explored outlined in maps and investigative walking to fully appreciate each place.

The wandering minstrel belongs to a medieval traditional form of travelling musicians who presented their musical skills from place to place. This work references a couple of modern wandering musicians maintaining this centuries old tradition.

Footloose Lithograph

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Angela Cheung

Wandering Minstrels Lithograph

Jo Lankester & Hannah Murray Jo Lankester and Hannah Murray work collaboratively through a variety of printmaking techniques sharing an exceptional artistic experience. Combining their distinctive styles to create unique state prints with an aesthetic approach the Awkward Orchid series is an exploration of composition, texture and colour. Awkward Orchid 1 Drypoint, Etching, Collagraph with Hand-colouring

Jo Lankester & Hannah Murray Awkward Orchid 2 Drypoint, Etching, Collagraph with Hand-colouring

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Alan Junior

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New York Awkward Orchid 3

Awkward Orchid 4

Drypoint, Etching, Collagraph with Hand-colouring

Maxine Smith

Sandi Hook

I am enjoying capturing the body language of dogs using lithography.

The white pot reflects the metaphor of 18th century colonial incursion when Australia was considered a tabula rasa: an empty vessel to be filled with and inscribed by British culture. This pot is situated at a crossing point on the fatal Edmund Kennedy trail in Cape York.

Taking Off Lithograph

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Jo Lankester & Hannah Murray

Colonial Pot 1: Tabula rasa Lithograph

Kay Watanabe

Laura.Castell

The background of my print Reclaim displays conflicts & other problems in the current world. I used pieces from a palm tree, stencils, rubber block & drypoint to create the work, hoping that problems will be solved & that peace and happiness will be achieved just like damaged plants can regrow.

The way we communicate is changing drastically. This image represents the strength of a direct and open attitude to connect and communicate with others.

Reclaim Found object, Stencils, Rubber block, Drypoint & Chine-colle

Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s talk Linocut & Woodcut

Vince Bray Eucalypt Forest, Mount Elliot, Townville. A fascinating forest, depending on the light. A tree-post fence flanks the road. TreeTalk ReliefÂ Print on Perspex

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Jo Lankester & Hannah Murray

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New York I am often inspired by the noise and antics of the birds foraging in the branches and foliage of trees.

Gentle wanderings, alongside and separate to each other, searching for the elixir of life.

Look-Out Point

Many paths to the Waterhole

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Margaret Robertson

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Tommy Pau

Zelma Schulten

I am an artist who is Indigenous. My work is concerned with developing a visual concept and language to express and engage with conflicting and subsumed histories and present day application of the past without desecrating what is sacred.

Through my art, I wish to accentuate the beauty and alliance of our natural surroundings. A small island in the Ross River offered a safe habitat for the Egret.

Matei (Eastern Torres Strait word-Meriam Mir, for Diamond Travelly) | Vinyl Relief Print

Margot Laver

Rhonda Stevens

Sleeping under the stars on top of ‘Big Red’, the biggest sand dune in the Simpsons Desert, was a unique experience for me. The wide open sky had stars dancing around me all night. Everything including the colours are exaggerated in this grand expanse of ‘nothingness’.

Gently stepping into the stretching landscape ahead, I relish the journey of life’s myriad experiences.

Egret’s refuge in Ross River | Unique Screenprint Etching

Each Venture is a New Beginning Collagraph

Big Red Linocut, Gouache wash & Lino roll-up

Sandra Wright Sea life and exploration into the interaction of colour through layered imagery currently inspires my prints. Flamboyant Jellyfish II | Multi-plate Relief Print

Sheree Kinlyside We wander about without ever really going anywhere. This preliminary drawing (etching) for a 3D movable assemblage work illustrates woman as machine, in this case a swimming machine. Her appendages appear human-like but they only move in a designated path “controlled” by her motorised self. After the construction of the 3D artwork there will be the drawing up of the blueprint...another etching which will describe the technical innards. The Looneybins are full of people like me… (Stephen King, Lisey’s Story) | Etching & Aquatint

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Wanderlust + Townsville/Australia Exchange Show Manhattan Graphics Center and the Umbrella Studio As an active printmaker I am always on the lookout for new possibilities and new ideas, especially when it comes to exploring what other printshops and organizations make and show. On my various travels to Australia I visited Townsville a few times, which resulted in my own art being included in the fabulous bi-annual “Compact Prints” show beginning in 2008. This exhibition is a wonderful opportunity that brings printmakers from all over the world together. I already can’t wait until the next exhibition. Participating in “Compact Prints” brought me to the idea of having Manhattan Graphics Center and the Umbrella Studio collaborate via an exchange of works, with Umbrella sending a representation of work from “antipode printmakers” to New York from Townsville and vice versa. After contacting Vicki Salisbury of the Umbrella Studio, we both agreed happily to organize an exchange show and send our respective studios’ work literally around the globe. With the world growing closer and smaller through modern technology I am extremely happy to add a more traditional way of communication ... the magical work of artistic prints and printmaking. In New York we created a “call for entries” at Manhattan Graphics Center and 33 enthusiastic artists submitted work, from which Rich Turnbull and I chose wonderful pieces. I believe we have a very good representation of the diversity of our artists as well as a survey of printmaking techniques from etching to silkscreen, from monoprint to linocut, from lithography to digital printmaking (and in some works many of these techniques are combined). I would hope that this is just the beginning of a tradition of exchanging work and ideas between MGC and the Umbrella Studio. Always be creative Matthias Kern Design: Matthias Kern - matthiaskernnyc@gmail.com

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