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 bag. We are excited because the prints were all made during the first workshop to be run for us by Antonia Aitken (assisted by Kari Gilbert) at the community of Wugularr. I have been travelling to this community since 2007, running workshops in silkscreen printing, woodblock, etching and collagraph. Now it’s time to step back from remote delivery, and Antonia and Kari had a great time with 17 of the artists earlier this year, building on their collagraph skills. Kari, in particular, has spent a number of months editioning the collagraph blocks and I have later added the silkscreened colours that some of the artists wanted over a number of their images.
The show is on at the Honey Bones Studio space in Brunswick, Melbourne, and Kari made it down for the opening.
