The first workshops of 2009 have been run at Merrepen Arts and on Elcho Island. Basil & Mats ventured through the floodwaters to work with a group of 15 mostly younger artists from the Daly River region.
They have made a stunning series of softground etchings, using found local flora and incorporating designs and drawings. A few weeks later, Basil and Antonia Aitken, visiting Workshop Manager from Megalo Arts in Canberra, made the trip to Elcho, where local painters and carvers joined us in a week of woodcuts, printed in 3-4 colours each on the new press at the Art Centre.
