December 18, 2020 Basil Hall
Quite a number of Art Centres took up our “Jobkeeper Offer” and sent new work or authorised editioning of older plates and screens during Covid. Ikuntji Arts in Haasts…
To mark the 175th anniversary of the shipwreck on the west coast of King island of the English barque, the Cataraqui, in 1845 with the loss of 400 lives,…
December 11, 2020 Basil Hall
After a dearth of workshops since January, I suddenly had two in quick succession in Sydney in November, thanks to the Warringah Printmakers. This time we did copper plate…
December 10, 2020 Basil Hall
No words are needed/words fail. How many more millions of dollars will we continue to spend incarcerating this Tamil family on Christmas Island? Do we as a country want…
Well, it’s been a strange year for BHE. All our art centre friends closed up shop with Covid, so we were suddenly without workshops and most of our potential…
November 19, 2020 Basil Hall
In one section of our new exhibition at City Walk Gallery, Canberra, we are showing some pretty impressive Indigenous prints from our Custodians series, a Judy Watson etching and…
I haven’t shown most of these new works of mine anywhere, so this exhibition of prints from our drawers at the City Walk Gallery in Canberra, opening Friday 20th…
The Desert Mob Panel (on 5 sheets) comprises the work of 40 artists from 40 communities in remote areas of the NT, WA and SA. Made in 2010 to…
November 18, 2020 Basil Hall
Nancy of Nancy Sever Gallery in Canberra has taken on a smart new upstairs space in Canberra City, above King OMalley’s pub, and asked me three weeks ago if…
August 3, 2020 Basil Hall
This would make a nice good news item at a time of pandemic crisis. While the world struggles to deal with “unprecedented” Covid events, this harmless little Tamil family…
July 12, 2020 Basil Hall
Albie’s first mobile. Bright colours..check! Refugee boat…check! Fibreglass “Return to Sender” lifeboats…check! Expensive French submarine, (available in 2035 and counting)…check! Start the grandchildren thinking early.
We had a very limited number of size OOOO Stop Adani jumpsuits left, but luckily there was one for the most recent family addition: Albert Baker Hall, born on…
June 15, 2020 Basil Hall
This beautiful new etching by Regina Wilson from Peppimenarti was made late last year when Regina was in Canberra for an exhibition opening (remember them?) The prints are bleed…
June 9, 2020 Basil Hall
With the big screen printing table now at a new home in Sydney, there has been room to spread out and rearrange the Basil Hall Editions studio. The smaller…
Following a bit of drama with the double doors (who knew even the widest of sliding doors wouldn’t be wide enough for a Hilton press?), the press was finally…
May 28, 2020 Basil Hall
I made the decision recently to combine our two studios and move the operation into Canberra, where I live with Pam. I love Braidwood, but running between two studios…
May 11, 2020 Basil Hall
In the midst of the current pandemic distraction, a note that other issues may have been temporarily swept under the carpet. This almost biblical confrontation between a young activist,…
Prominent Warmun artist, Lena Nyadbi, may be in retirement in Hall’s Creek these days, but a set of her beautiful etching plates has emerged and they have been approved…
March 31, 2020 Basil Hall
Click on this one to open it up in full. Kerri Weymouth, “Identity”, silkscreen on Magnani
Social distancing whilst examining the ten new editions we have just finished with Coleambally artist, Kerri Weymouth. Kerri has been working on a series of posters, using a grant…
