November 16, 2021 Basil Hall
On December 12 we are having an all day (12-5) opening of Rare Collectible Prints at Nancy Sever Gallery, Canberra City. We (Printers Basil Hall, Monique Auricchio & Jo…
ON DECEMBER 12 AT NANCY SEVER GALLERY IN CANBERRA, WE ARE OPENING A VERY SPECIAL EXHIBITION OF RARE PRINTS FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF BASIL HALL, MONIQUE AURICCHIO AND JOANNE…
AN EXCITING OPPORTUNITY TO ADD TO YOUR COLLECTION Following the lifting of the Canberra lockdown, Nancy Sever Gallery has resumed its 2021 exhibition schedule. Yes, REAL exhibitions attended by…
October 21, 2021 Basil Hall
Another sad day for the community and Art Centre at Yirrkala. Buku Larnggay Mulka will be missing one of their most prolific and enthusiastic artists today. Ms N Yunupingu…
October 16, 2021 Basil Hall
Words not required here. Have a go…at Glasgow! Basil Hall, Inaction is Arson, Silkscreen 2019
At the beginning of 2020 I proposed a group exhibition to the Southern Highlands Printmakers as part of their/our program for that year. Each of the 26 participants drew…
ABORIGINAL & TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER PEOPLE ARE WARNED THAT SOME PEOPLE IN OLDER PHOTOGRAPHS ON THIS WEBSITE MAY BE DECEASED Reminiscing during Covid has lead to the discovery of…
It has been nearly two years since I ran any printmaking workshops at home in Canberra, owing to the you-know-what. The lockdown time has allowed editioning to continue without…
We finally went over to the “dark side” with these. Peter Eve, fabulous long-time Top End photographer now based in Queensland, took some great shots during our recent trip…
As previously noted, I managed a workshop on Bathurst Island earlier in the year with the Ngaruwannajiri artists. In five days we made around 20 editions, about half of…
This is one of the new Elcho Island prints which were launched at DAAF recently. Woodblock and silkscreen by Tommy Minburra (story printed on the reverse). Tommy cut the…
July 20, 2021 Basil Hall
I had just taken a call from Yirrkala informing me of Dr Marika’s passing when I looked at my phone and saw the sad news of Mandy’s death on…
I am so sad to add my condolences to those of B.M’s family and friends on the occasion of her passing last week. I had been in constant contact…
Artists Tommy Minburra and Nicholas Baru Pascoe working on the last day of our woodblock and silkscreen workshop last week. Tommy is using his hair brush (made using long…
Happiness is a full rack of drying prints, although 100% humidity every night does make drying these woodblock prints very difficult. The 250gsm Stonehenge paper also went very floppy…
Beswick Falls We were accompanied during our workshop by famed NT photographer, Peter Eve. Peter shot some beautiful photos of the plant gathering, the artists themselves and the plants we…
During the workshop at Beswick, a dozen artists participated. Most have been part of previous series of prints and were familiar with etching, so we concentrated on hard ground…
Alfonso has already made one colour etching with me (by correspondence) during Covid, so this workshop was our opportunity to work in person. Here he is working in colour…
April 14, 2021 Basil Hall
What a backdrop! Under the Art Centre’s inspiring ceiling panels, our artists worked away on new etchings. So far, 17 new editions are well underway, with more to come…
