BHE Jumbuck
May 2, 2009 Basil Hall
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…
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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…
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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)…
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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…
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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…
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Keep that left hand behind the tool
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…
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Senior Elcho artist Peter Datjing discusses his first two blocks with Basil during the February workshop conducted on the island.
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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.…
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General Studio View January 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.
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Sean and visiting Canberra printmaker Antonia Aitken editioning one of a number of beautiful prints from the Warmun artists (Kimberley region, Western Australia) 2009
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Peter and the gang of heavies from Porky’s Pickups help us turn over the bed of the red Hilton press. It has developed a dip in the centre over…
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Mount Borradaile Workshop 09
February 24, 2009 Basil Hall
ALAS, THIS WORKSHOP IS UNDER-SUBSCRIBED OWING TO THE STATE OF THE WORLD AND WILL NOT GO AHEAD THIS YEAR. Following the great success of our painting and printmaking workshops…
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The first workshops of 2009 have been run at Merrepen Arts and on Elcho Island. Basil & Mats ventured through the floodwaters to work with a group of 15…
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SORRY. CANCELLED OWING TO LACK OF NUMBERS Part of the beautiful escarpment and wetlands at Mount Borradaile, where 19 lucky people can come on a painting and printmaking camp…
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Rainbow Serpent – Mount Borradaile
February 23, 2009 Basil Hall
A very small part of the magnificent rainbow serpent, found in one of the numerous galleries of outstanding rock art to be seen at Mount Borradaile. Experienced guides, led…
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Basil and Elcho Arts Centre manager, Dion Teasdale discuss the new woodcuts made during a workshop conducted by Basil and Megalo’s Antonia Aitken in February 2009 on Elcho Island.
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The passing of a special artist
February 22, 2009 Basil Hall
It is with great sadness that the printers at BHE have heard of the passing of a senior Kimberley artist from Fossil Downs, near Fitzroy Crossing in WA. He…
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Dusk on Cooper Creek, Mount Borradaile