July 5, 2009 Basil Hall
Mandy Martin’s triptych Imanara, an etching on Hahnemuhle paper made in 2009. Mandy worked with Kumanjayi Cherel at Fitzroy Crossing; each artist painting and subsequently making an etching of…
Basil all dressed up for the opening at Rebecca Hossack Gallery in May. Basil is examining some tapestries made in Nepal to designs by Fregon and Yuendumu Indigenous artists;…
Back to the blog and back in Australia after 6 weeks overseas. Here’s a picture of the Rebecca Hossack Gallery in London. BHE’s exhibition filled the middle and top…
June 21, 2009 Basil Hall
The blog has been a bit quiet while Basil has been in Europe, owing to technical difficulties (camera software not talking to travelling laptop), so please bear with us…
May 2, 2009 Basil Hall
“Etched in the Sun: London” is Basil Hall Editions’ latest exhibition. The exhibition, which opened in Canberra in 2008, (seen here) has been updated with exciting new prints. Work…
Keith Steven’s stunning new colour etching, printed by Basil and Mats, will be seen next as part of “Etched in the Sun: London” at Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, from…
Ernabella artist Nura Rupert met up with Basil at Yulara in March to do some new sugarlifts. Thanks to Maruku Arts, we were able to work at their warehouse…
What a colourful sight! Kitty Richards, a senior artist at Wiluna, and her fellow lino-cutters, Shiela and Nyapurla, all wore fabulous hats on the last day of Basil’s linocut…
Tjukurba Art Gallery Manager at Wiluna, Heather Charlton worked hard with Basil recently, aided by her visiting friend Sue, to produce over 120 multi-colour woodblock prints (12 editions of around 10)…
What a beauty! The BHE Jumbuck ute, which has already had trips (with the etching press in the back) to Beswick and Jabiru and has forded floodwaters outside Nauiyu…
After the March workshop with Basil, senior painter, Jimmy Baker worked closely with Amanda Dent at Tjungu Palya Art Centre over a period of some weeks to paint the…
Tjungu Palya artist Wingu Tingima found the acetate sheets she was painting on a bit shiny and borrowed Brian’s sunglasses at a silkscreen workshop run by Basil in Nyapari…
Several months after the Nyapari workshop with Keith Stevens and other artists, Keith got to see his new etching and signed the edition with his wife Tjampawa (and Basil)…
Tjungu Palya artist Keith Stevens at work on a zinc plate etching during Basil’s workshop at Nyapari in late 2008. The edition has now been printed and signed and…
Have a look at this beautiful softground drawing and the other five in Jenny Sages’ 2002 series of prints entitled “Red Shoes from Vinnies”. These were based on a…
March 17, 2009 Basil Hall
The sure hands of Elcho Island artist Joe, as he cuts his new woodblock using a design he has developed based on the movement of salt water currents. This print…
Senior Elcho artist Peter Datjing discusses his first two blocks with Basil during the February workshop conducted on the island.
Tommy Minburra, Elcho Island carver, working on his third reduction woodcut during the latest printmaking workshop conducted by Basil Hall and Sean Smith for Elcho Arts in March 2009.…
March 2, 2009 Basil Hall
A general view of BHE, taken in early 2009, showing part of the printing room, including the silkscreen area and, beyond Mats and Sean, two of the etching presses.
Sean and visiting Canberra printmaker Antonia Aitken editioning one of a number of beautiful prints from the Warmun artists (Kimberley region, Western Australia) 2009