Bring them home
August 3, 2020 Basil Hall
This would make a nice good news item at a time of pandemic crisis. While the world struggles to deal with “unprecedented” Covid events, this harmless little Tamil family…
A little something for the baby’s room
July 12, 2020 Basil Hall
Albie’s first mobile. Bright colours..check! Refugee boat…check! Fibreglass “Return to Sender” lifeboats…check! Expensive French submarine, (available in 2035 and counting)…check! Start the grandchildren thinking early.
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We had a very limited number of size OOOO Stop Adani jumpsuits left, but luckily there was one for the most recent family addition: Albert Baker Hall, born on…
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Regina Wilson etching
June 15, 2020 Basil Hall
This beautiful new etching by Regina Wilson from Peppimenarti was made late last year when Regina was in Canberra for an exhibition opening (remember them?) The prints are bleed…
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A nice northerly aspect for screen printing
June 9, 2020 Basil Hall
With the big screen printing table now at a new home in Sydney, there has been room to spread out and rearrange the Basil Hall Editions studio. The smaller…
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Following a bit of drama with the double doors (who knew even the widest of sliding doors wouldn’t be wide enough for a Hilton press?), the press was finally…
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BHE moving from Braidwood to Canberra
May 28, 2020 Basil Hall
I made the decision recently to combine our two studios and move the operation into Canberra, where I live with Pam. I love Braidwood, but running between two studios…
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Basil Hall screen print reminds us of issues temporarily forgotten during Covid
May 11, 2020 Basil Hall
In the midst of the current pandemic distraction, a note that other issues may have been temporarily swept under the carpet. This almost biblical confrontation between a young activist,…
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Prominent Warmun artist, Lena Nyadbi, may be in retirement in Hall’s Creek these days, but a set of her beautiful etching plates has emerged and they have been approved…
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One of Kerri Weymouth’s posters
March 31, 2020 Basil Hall
Click on this one to open it up in full. Kerri Weymouth, “Identity”, silkscreen on Magnani
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Social distancing whilst examining the ten new editions we have just finished with Coleambally artist, Kerri Weymouth. Kerri has been working on a series of posters, using a grant…
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King Island Artists’ Residencies
February 19, 2020 Basil Hall
Artists’ residencies are offered year round by King Island Council and their Art & Cultural Centre. I have generously been offered nearly three weeks here to explore and work…
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I was at the scene of Australia’s worst ever (civil) maritime disaster yesterday. It’s on the S-W coast of King Island, where almost 175 years ago a barque named…
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A first workshop in Braidwood for 2020
February 5, 2020 Basil Hall
I ran a workshop at Hazelhurst Regional Art Centre in Sydney in January and we had unfinished business, so three of the participants have been down to Braidwood to…
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Skopelos Printmaking Adventure 2020 reluctantly cancelled
January 22, 2020 Basil Hall
Yes, we have a lot of fun on our Skopelos workshops! It’s our eleventh year of workshops on this beautiful island and we were about to offer Intaglio (etching…
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Kerri Weymouth Project January 2020
January 17, 2020 Basil Hall
Coleambally artist, Kerri Weymouth , is with me for a couple of weeks to produce a series of silkscreens. We made a great start this week on 10 self-portrait…
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Another shot at Katherine
December 15, 2019 Basil Hall
Artists Darryl Jolly and Angelica Wesan painted up for the opening of Djilpin Art’s show at Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Gallery in Katherine. They are standing in front of their…
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Peppimenarti weaver and painter, Regina Wilson, has made a number of etchings and silkscreen prints with us over the years, but it has been a while since we got…
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Djilpin Arts (Beswick) to show at Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts & Culture Centre
October 21, 2019 Basil Hall
I recently ran a workshop in Beswick in the Northern Territory (see earlier entry). The fourteen new prints (seven pairs) are about to be framed and sent up to…
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This etching, Syaw, was made in 2008 for our Custodians folio. There are very few prints remaining from the 10 editions which made up the limited edition set, but I…