July 11, 2010 Basil Hall
Sweden’s Mikael Kihlman and London-based Australian artist Christopher Croft set up alongside Garry Shead at tables in the printmaking room, overlooking the Aegean. Here Mikael (in the foreground) is…
July 10, 2010 Basil Hall
Basil and Mats have just finished a successful fortnight on wonderful Skopelos as guests of the Skopelos Foundation, along with nine artists from Australia, England and Sweden. Garry Shead,…
June 3, 2010 Basil Hall
With some of the furniture removed, BHE’s main room became a make-shift lecture room for 45 passengers from the cruise ship Orion on Sunday. What a nice crowd of…
Basil and visiting artist, Judy Watson, did some quick proofing of one of Judy’s new “Blue Mud Bay” prints in front of an audience of around 45 passengers from…
Director of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research at the ANU, Howard Morphy and his wife, linguist, Frances Morphy, visited Darwin (and BHE) last weekend to join the cruise ship…
May 10, 2010 Basil Hall
Minister for the Arts in the Northern Territory, Gerry McCarthy, spent some time at Basil Hall Editions on Monday. It was kind of him to find the time. As…
May 9, 2010 Basil Hall
Mats, assisted by Patricia, currently a volunteer at Tjukurba Art Gallery at Wiluna, recently completed 22 editions of colour reduction linocuts using Tjukurba’s MES press! They are seen here at the…
Sean (now working for Elcho Arts) has recently been back with us, helping Basil resolve and proof a number of etchings made by Elcho artists at a workshop run…
April 18, 2010 Basil Hall
Angus & Rose Cameron and Judy Watson discussing proofs of her four new etchings for Nomad Art Productions’ Blue Mud Bay Project, to be launched in August in Darwin.…
April 5, 2010 Basil Hall
Outstation Director, Matt Ward, gave Basil a lift out to Warakurna for his recent workshops with the Western Desert Mob. On the way out of Yulara, they stopped at…
Mrs Carol Golding worked prolifically both at Warakurna and at “home” at the aged care facility at Wanarn, 100kms away during the WDM workshops hosted recently by Warakurna Artists and…
Emerging Warakurna artist Ken Shepherd made two beautiful sets of plates for what will be a pair of stunning colour etchings. Is is expected that these and other prints…
We could have made some interesting marks on a plate with this spiky little visitor, but she looked like she was pregnant, so she was carefully taken back out…
Warakurna Artists was host to the long-awaited Western Desert Mob Printmaking Workshops, funded through the Australia Council for the Arts. Over a two week period, Basil and the respective…
February 28, 2010 Basil Hall
Well, not actually ON Heron Island! Visting printer Beth Conway has been part of the team working on Judy’s Watson’s Heron Island Suite. Involving all five printers at various times,…
February 9, 2010 Basil Hall
Mats, Basil, Nena and visiting Melbourne printmaker Beth Conway celebrating Nena’s birthday in early February. Nena has almost been with us for four years and spent the whole day…
January 30, 2010 Basil Hall
Basil Hall Editions’ printers work on over 100 editions of prints a year. However, only a small fraction of these beautiful editions appear on our website, as we don’t…
January 25, 2010 Basil Hall
John Wolseley has just been back at BHE in mid-January to complete some plate work and “edition” a series of frottaged monoprints he has done for the Nomad Art…
January 10, 2010 Basil Hall
OK, we can’t help it, but here’s another shot of this gorgeous spot! If the Basil Hall Editions June printmaking workshop at Skopelos Foundation is a success, we’ll certainly…
Basil and Mats have volunteered their assistance in the printmaking studios at the Skopelos Foundation for the two week workshop with ten artists (mentioned below). When we are not…