Skopelos pie (Galaktopita)
July 11, 2010 Basil Hall
No report from Skopelos would be complete without an obligatory taverna scene. Here, Judy Watson (left) and Barbie Kjar are about to take delivery of a complimentary Skopelos pie…
Each artist had a generous space in the Skopelos Foundation studios. Belinda lost no time setting up and commencing to paint on small boards. Later in the fortnight she…
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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…
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A message from Greece
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,…
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A shipload of onlookers
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…
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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…
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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…
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BHE meets the Minister
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…
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Mats spends a big week at Wiluna
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…
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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…
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Judy Watson visit April 2010
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.…
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Uluru was awash after heavy rains in March
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Beth works on Heron Island
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,…
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Nena’s birthday and Beth’s farewell
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…
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Don’t just look at our blog!
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…
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John Wolseley returns to BHE in January 2010
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…