Press for Sale, Dunedin

Peter Booth contacted me with a request to help him re-home his Manuka print press.

It is currently based in Dunedin, and the buyer would need to collect. 

 It comes with the plastic protector for press bed and three felts of different thicknesses.

It is about 6 years old, only lightly used.

The roller/drum has some light rust pits on the one side that faced the ceiling. 

Due to multiple relocations, there is damage to one connecting screw on one drum tightening levers  

though it is still usable just need to hold it down when turning the tension.

Other than that, it is 'as new'. 

Peter would like $3000, but is open to offers. 

If you're interested, please contact Peter on 021 802 768

Call for Applications: APS International Artist-in-residence, by 30Sept

For those of you who read this blog from outside New Zealand, this is especially for you:

International artists are invited to apply to 

Auckland Print Studio's 5th International Artist-in-Residence programme.

Auckland Print Studio is located in Auckland, New Zealand, 

and specialises in stone and photo-plate lithography.

The residency's aim is to collaboratively produce a suite of hand-printed lithographs. 

APS are welcoming all artists to apply, regardless of printmaking experience. 

Residency is 6 weeks duration, from 8 December 2014 to 18 January 2015

(Dates are flexible by a few days either way)

Shared accommodation and all printmaking materials are included. 

Trips to some of NZ's famous west coast beaches are also an integral part of the residency!

Deadline for Application: 30 September / Notification: 13 October

For further information about applying, see www.aucklandprintstudio.com website

or contact aucklandprintstudio@gmail.com if you have any questions.

Congratulations Rosemary Mortimer!

A big congratulations to NZ printmaker Rosemary Mortimer 

for being one of the 6 winners at the 34th Mini Print International of Cadaqués, 2014

Rosemary Mortimer, Interface III
Collagraph, edition of 25

The jury selected 6 winners and 10 finalists from 740 exhibiting artists from 56 countries.

You can see all the entries and more information

at the MINI PRINT 2014 section of the MiniPrint website: www.miniprint.org

Mahuru: Te Tau O Te Kowhai, 28Aug-23Sept, Morrinsville

Wallace Gallery in Morrinsville is hosting an exhibition from 28 August - 23 September

titled Mahuru: Te Tau O Te Kowhai - The Season of the Flowering Kowhai

featuring artists Gabrielle Belz, Vanessa Edwards, Ruth Green-Cole,

Keatley Hopkins, Faith McManus and Alexis Neal.

If you live in the Waikato area, you may like to attend the opening event 

which will be held between 6-7:30pm on Wednesday 27 August.

Drypoint Workshop, 2Nov, Wellington

Drypoint Printmaking Workshop with guest artist Alexis Neal, Sunday 2 November

This one day workshop will explore a variety of materials and mark making 

through basic print processes using relief surfaces and dry point techniques using plexi-plate. 

With a focus on multi-layered printing participants will manipulate these surfaces 

with cut stencils to create rich woven images. 

It is about introducing new ideas and skills that students can adopt and extend on in their own practice.

This workshops cost $145 including all materials and equipment you will need for the day. 

Workshop is 9:30am-4:00pm, at Solander Gallery in Wellington. 

Places are limited to a maximum of eight participants so booking is essential. 

Currently Solander's website says there were only 2 spaces left, so register asap to avoid disappointment!

For more information about registering, see www.solandergallery.co.nz

Call for Entries: Impressive 5 - Wansolwara, by 17Sept

The 5th Impressive printmaking show will be returning to Nathan Homestead, in Manurewa, Auckland. 

This year the show is titled Wansolwara: Print Here and Now, 

and is open to NZ artists working in any print medium. 

All of us here in Aotearoa New Zealand carry the legacy of recent or long distant migrations to this land.

The word wansolwara comes from the Solomon Islands and means 'one salt water'. 

The notion arising from this is 'one ocean, one people'.  

We are connected and separated by the ocean. 

One sea that we live close to, that nourishes us, that connects us to home and to discovery.

Similarly, every inked image participates in a migration like shift from its start point, 

be that a plate, block, screen or file, to place(s) where it will be seen. 

The printed image sits on a new ground, always in the here and now, 

separated from yet connected to its origins. 

Image: Winston Shacklock, 2013

Artists are invited to submit up one or two images for selection for the show. 

Images to be saved as jpeg with maximum size of 1000 pixels the longest side image dimension.

Entries need to have been made by the artist, within the last 12 months.

With your image, please supply: Medium, Title of Work, Date of Work, Size,

Work can be unframed or freestanding, so indicate if any specific display or installation instructions.

All artists submitting work are required to submit a 200-300 word statement 

regarding the work and the basis of their practice. 

Enter by email to Steve Lovett, Cerisse Palagi, or Struan Hamilton by Wednesday 17 September

All artists will be informed by email of the curators’ decision by Friday 26 September. 

Work will be delivered to Nathan Homestead by Friday 17 October. 

Collagraph Workshop, 12Oct, Wellington

Collagraph Printmaking Workshop with Vincent Drane, Sunday 12 October

Collagraph prints are simple, fun but effective. 

Unique prints are taken from a plate created with materials and textures collaged onto a flat surface. 

This one day workshop explores a direct painterly approach to creative printmaking. 

This workshops cost $145 including all materials and equipment you will need for the day. 

Workshop is 9:30am-4:00pm, at Solander Gallery in Wellington. 

Places are limited to a maximum of eight participants so booking is essential. 

Currently Solander's website says there were only 3 spaces left, so register asap to avoid disappointment!

For more information about registering, see www.solandergallery.co.nz

Julienne Francis, 25Aug-5Sept, Auckland

NorthArt Gallery in Auckland's Northcote are hosting an exhibition of print works by Julienne Francis

titled Fragments of Time from 25 August to 5 September.

The exhibition contains a suite of drypoint prints drawn from family archives,
as well as prints and artists' books Julienne has made in the past seven years.

You are also invited to attend the exhibition opening function
4-6pm on Sunday 24 August at NorthArt Gallery in Northcote, Auckland.

Chris Adams, 20Aug-20Sept, Wellington

 Spirit of Place is an exhibition of new mezzotint prints by Chris Adams,

at Solander Gallery in Wellington from 20 August to 20 September

"These mezzotints celebrate the landscape of Wellington, 

a meeting-place of a geologically active land with the dramatic seas and skies of Cook Strait. 

Emigrants to this New World have radically modified the land, 

revealing its innate muscularity and sensual forms, 

but also leaving poignant remnants of the forest and their own strange monuments to the past 

– the spirit of place. 

The mezzotints are arranged to accompany an imagined emigrant (the Gerontius of one print) 

through arrival, a new life’s challenges and on departure, repose."

Chris Adams, Summer - Rock Point, 2013
Mezzotint, 30x40cm, edition of 15

Susanne Khouri, 11-18Aug, Auckland

Susanne Khouri is having a week-long exhibition in Auckland's Mt Eden next week,

handmade prints titled "Signposts of Memory in Palestine - 

Where do the people of Gaza come from?"

Opening 6-8pm on Monday 11 August, closing 18 August.

Ono Kouseki (Japan)

Its not very often that I see a printed artwork that 'blows my mind',

but today I saw these screenprints by Ono Kouseki (or Ko-seki Ono), from Japan,

and was so amazed that I felt like sharing them here on my blog...

Here is the invitation for 'Approaching Zero: At the Frontier of Contemporary Printmaking'

held at Kala Gallery in California, Feb-April 2014.
I was intrigued by this image, so I googled the artist...

Here are some of Ono's artworks from this exhibition.

Ono Kouseki, One Hundred Layers of Color, 2013
Screenprint, 50x60cm

Ono Kouseki, One Hundred Layers of Color, 2013
Screenprint, 50x60cm

As I admired the interesting visual texture and colour explorations,

the artist statement made me realise the title of the work is literal...

"Kouseki Ono creates multiple miniature cylinders using a silkscreen method. 

He hand-draws dots on his screen and prints this screen over and over to make 100 layers of ink. 

Ono combines these cylinders in various ways 

to create wall and floor installations, and sculpture pieces. 

The colors of the surface change depending on where the viewer stands 

and the effect is astonishing." [Statement: Kala Gallery website]

Ono Kouseki, One Hundred Layers of Color (detail), 2013
Screenprint, 50x60cm

Ono Kouseki, One Hundred Layers of Color, 2013
Screenprint, 50x60cm

Ono Kouseki, One Hundred Layers of Color (detail), 2013
Screenprint, 50x60cm

I find this kind of technical mastery both fascinating and intimidating!

As well as wall-based works, he also makes installations 

and 3D objects make from these screenprinted sheets of inky towers.

Ono Kouseki, Those days, the moon changed the color of the water surface, 2009
Screenprint, 520x520cm [installation shot]

Ono Kouseki, Those days, the moon changed the color of the water surface, 2009
Screenprint, 520x520cm [detail]

Ono Kouseki, Those days, the moon changed the color of the water surface, 2009
Screenprint, 520x520cm [close-up detail]

Ono Kouseki, Rinzu [close-up detail, in 3D form]

Ono Kouseki, The Hidden One - Sixty, 2009
13x13x13cm

Check out more of his works at www.onokouseki.com