During Covid, I had to work by correspondence; getting artists to send me paintings and drawings on acetate and film. Now the communities have been able to open their…
Ngaruwanajirri, a workshop with a long and proud history of working with disadvantaged people on Bathurst Island, is hosting a Basil Hall Editions workshop this week. After a year…
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Back to Wodonga (through the Covid blockade)
February 5, 2021 Basil Hall
The Creators mob in Wodonga invited me back to do another workshop with them. In spite of the Covid/Border control being set up literally out the front of the…
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Last job for the year: Eunice Napanangka Jack’s etching
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…
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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,…
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Warringah Printmakers have me back
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…