Another shot from David Bosun’s residency at BHE
April 30, 2025 Basil Hall
Basil and David pulling a proof off the second (woodblock) plate of one of his recent images. Carefully prepared stencils still lie on the block. More colours to follow!
While our visitors from Warmun Arts were with us, we were able to make a visit to Southern Highlands artist, Ben Quilty’s studio. We all really enjoyed seeing his impressive…
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Most recent visitor – Zena Cumpston from Melbourne
April 29, 2025 Basil Hall
Zena Cumpston, writer, activist and artist arrived hard on the heels of Karen Mills’ residency and spent a week with us exploring some new imagery. Pictured here, she is…
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Karen has made a number of trips to Canberra to work with us. This time we editioned some smaller etchings as part of a proposed boxed folio. We also…
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Troy Drill’s collagraph plate on the press after we pulled the first proof.
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Dwayne Jessell made a number of beautifully fine etchings on the last two days.
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Three emerging artists from Warmun Arts in Turkey Creek, Kimberley, WA came in March, accompanied by Perth lecturer, Andy Quilty. Jonathan Malgil, Troy Drill and Dwayne Jessell have all…
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Former Canberran, Christopher Croft, returned to these shores recently armed with a number of exquisite plates he made on the island of Skopelos. Why Greece, you ask? We had…
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Prominent Torres Strait Islander, David Bosun, visited in February and made over 50 new works with our printers. David has been working in his Moa Island studio on mono…
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A “new” Kevin Gilbert edition completed
July 31, 2024 Basil Hall
The first Australian Indigenous printmaker, Kevin Gilbert, made the lino blocks for this new edition in the 1960’s. He would have made a proof or two at the time,…
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Here we are at the end of a dynamic residency by Karen Mills (Darwin) and Lisa Waup (Melbourne). The two artists worked with us on a series of collagraph…
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We didn’t quite finish what we set out to do in Charlottesville, Virginia in March, so thanks to the Kluge Ruhe Collection at the University of Virginia and the…
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A new collagraph of mine in the works
July 5, 2024 Basil Hall
This is a new collagraph addition to my “Trees-as-historians” series. Still a bit of fine tuning to do, but this first proof, done at Avenel on Angus Cameron’s press,…
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It’s pretty nice to get away from your own space every now and then and visit another artist’s studio. Victorian printmaker, Angus Cameron, and painter, Gus Leunig, were both…
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9 Art Centre arts workers and two mentor arts workers from last year’s visit, accompanied by ANKA staff (and a baby) all came to visit the studio last month.…
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Four workshops in May for Basil Hall Editions!
June 4, 2024 Basil Hall
May has been a full month, with three workshops here in the Canberra studio and one with the Makers in Gosford. Two colour etching workshops were offered and two…