Canberra silkscreen studio December 2018
December 30, 2018 Basil Hall
Time to update our old shot of the Canberra BHE silkscreen studio on this site. The greenery has grown nicely over the last two years, making the shed look…
David Frazer workshop on Skopelos in 2019
December 28, 2018 Basil Hall
I won’t be running a printmaking workshop in Skopelos next year (2019) for the first time in many years. It’s time for a holiday and a refreshing break. Instead,…
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Final Braidwood printmaking workshop for 2018
December 16, 2018 Basil Hall
Three Skopelos veterans returned to BHE this weekend for our final workshop for the year. Here Janine and Margot, two of the participants, hold Margot’s latest copper plate etching.…
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Australian Print Triennial winds up in Mildura
November 4, 2018 Basil Hall
The Australian Print Triennial, run by Mildura’s Art Vault has just concluded after four jam-packed days of forums, exhibitions, debates and fine food. Many thanks to Kevin, Julie and…
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We have recently been completing a number of editions of silkscreen prints for sisters Sarrita and Tarisse King, who visited Canberra a few months ago for a week of…
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Back to Armidale, NSW
October 23, 2018 Basil Hall
The Black Gully Printmakers in Armidale operate out of a purpose-fitted-out workshop under the New England Regional Art Museum (NERAM) these days, and the sign on the door says…
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Munich-based Australian artist, Christopher Croft has just been in the studio making new photo etchings with me. Christopher has spent many years working on exquisite series of delicate drawings…
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October Workshop in Braidwood
October 15, 2018 Basil Hall
We have just completed another weekend workshop, this time organised by a group from Albury-Wodonga. I have been down to their studio (called Creative Artspace) to run workshops in…
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It wasn’t all work on Skopelos
September 16, 2018 Basil Hall
The Milos printmaking space hummed with excitement as our group was joined by locals and passers by for a quick look at the labours of the fortnight on Skopelos.
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David Frazer, Pam and I have just wound up our 2018 Skopelos printmaking workshop with an exhibition at Milos Studios. This year’s group did a wonderful job and their…
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At last, number 50 of 50 rolls off the press in Braidwood. I worked with the Buku Larnggay printers in Yirrkala last year for two weeks and a number…
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Tarisse King (pictured with manager Keith Murphy) and her younger sister Sarrita have been brought to Canberra to check out the creative possibilities of screen printing at our studio.…
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Central Australian (Geelong domiciled) artist, Raymond Walters has been making screen prints with me recently at our Canberra studio. We managed a traditional (three stories) print and another version…
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This was the scene a number of years ago as we headed out west to work in the APY Lands of South Australia. Now, in a special exhibition at…
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Back to Creators’ Artspace in Albury/Wodonga
May 17, 2018 Basil Hall
Therese preparing some of her artwork for the collaborative woodblock print we did last week during my recent workshops with this enthusiastic printmaking group in Albury/Wodonga. I didn’t get…
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This is the first proof of our recent collaborative woodblock, produced during a workshop I ran at Creators’ Artspace in Albury/Wodonga in May (before some fine tuning took place…
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We are missing some of the gang, but here’s the scene from last week’s first (of two) workshops at Creators’ Artspace in Albury/Wodonga. Following a drawing session at the…
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South Coast artists, Mirabel Fitzgerald and Mark Ward have just spent three days at our studio making new etchings and editioning large linocuts. Experienced artists like Mark and Mirabel…