Rebecca Ray and Tamika Grant-Iramu visit
October 12, 2026 Basil Hall
Bec and Tamika also had a chance to look at a few examples around Basil’s house and studio before we got out the inks.
Brisbane artist, Tamika Grant-Iramu visited the studio last week with Art Gallery of NSW Curator, Bec Ray. It was good to meet this talented printmaker and to have a…
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Over the last year, Canberra printmaker and ceramic artist Fenja Ringl has been working towards an exhibition at Belconnen Arts. Some of her work has involved making new zinc…
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Floods-willing, Djilpin Arts from Wugularr in the Northern Territory will soon have a retrospective of around half of the 207 editions we have made together in the last 15…
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Nearly seven years ago we organised for some acetate to be sent to Tjuntjuntjara in remote WA so that a number of the senior men could create the painted…
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Chris Griffiths’ visit from Kununurra, Western Australia
January 17, 2026 Basil Hall
We had already printed a couple of collagraphs that Waringarri artist, Chris Griffiths had sent us last year, so it was really nice to meet him in person in…
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Krystle works in Broken Hill, and some one her previous pieces have involved fabric. Her textile work blends indigenous stories with feminist themes and she can also be studied…
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David Doyle is a man with many hats; one of which is that of an artist working in a variety of media. Here is one of three collagraph plates…
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The artists who attended my collagraph workshop at Laughing Waters in November are all experienced weavers and/or image makers, so introducing a new medium didn’t represent a problem to…
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In November, I was invited to do a 10 day residency and run a workshop at Laughing Waters (Garambi Baanj), near Eltham in Victoria. The site is on a…
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The new Director of the UVA’s Kluge Ruhe Collection, Nici Cumpston, visited Basil Hall Editions a few weeks ago. She was accompanied by long-time staff member/Senior Collections Manager/Registrar, Nicole…
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Bathi is Djilpin Arts’ latest exhibition of prints we’ve made together. Also in this exhibition are dilly bags and jewellery, all related to the theme of the ancestral dilly…
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Yolngu Power! What a show at the AGNSW in Sydney
September 18, 2025 Basil Hall
I missed the opening, but have now caught up with an extraordinary exhibition of art from the artists working through their dynamic art centre in Yirrkala: Buku Larrnggay Mulka.…
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We had the pleasure of attending the opening at Tuggeranong Arts the other night of the Bill and Bev Wood collection. Bill was a member of parliament in Queensland…
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This is an example, by Viv Lightfoot, of one of the great little experiments our group of teachers and educators made at Megalo last weekend. A collagraph made on…
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To coincide with the National Gallery of Australia’s current exhibition, Prints & Processes The Kenneth E Tyler Collection (curated by Kira Godoroja-Prieckaerts), Annika Romeyn and I were asked to…
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Another shot from the Wugularr (Beswick, NT) workshop
September 6, 2025 Basil Hall
My assistant, Kari Gilbert, watching some of the Wugularr artists making their collagraph plates at the workshop she and Antonia Aitken ran for BHE recently. We are currently editioning…
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We occasionally offer workshops for small groups of artists when we aren’t busy editioning, out bush or collaborating with individual artists in the Canberra studio. These workshops can be…