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 Wade. They first attended Tarnanthi, which Nici has curated for 10 years in Adelaide, before spending a few days in Canberra. We are so glad they had time to visit the …
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Local Braidwood visual art teacher, Ruby Green, recently arranged for screen printer, Alison Alder, and BHE to assist a couple of her Yr 12 students with facilities in which…
I was invited recently to run another collagraph workshop in Gosford, following one in 2024. Once again I drove up and had a great two days with the Makers…
Michael and I have been working on prints together for over 30 years. This year we have commenced a series of etchings on zinc, which he will complete when…
With my slowly withdrawing from the remote work, Antonia Aitken and Kari Gilbert headed up to Wugularr (Beswick) in southern Arnhem Land to run this years collagraph workshop. 20…
We had a coloured background plate inked up and then gave each participants a small pre-aquatinted plate to stencil using found objects in the garden. The background plate was…
It was fun to host this year’s 10 Arts Workers from NT and WA Art Centres for another show and tell at our Canberra studio. We managed to find…
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…
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…
