Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
Have you captured our memories?
Did you know that in October this year, the Clarence City Council celebrates 150 years of existence?
To celebrate, the artists of the Hunter Island Press in collaboration with the Clarence City Council, would like to showcase 150 years of photographic memories in an art exhibition and series of artist-run digital printing workshops.
Our Tasmanian printmakers would like to share your favourite photographic memories of life and times in the Clarence district – simply bring in or post us your original images, and we’ll scan and turn them into works of art for the entire community to marvel and enjoy.
We are looking for the original images from the community and organisations that would like to participate.
Watch this space for news on upcoming workshops and exhibition.
FREE WORKSHOPS
10am–1pm, Saturday 7 August, Saturday 21 August, Saturday 4 September and Saturday 18 September. Contact us to book a place.
CONTACT US – THE HUNTER ISLAND PRESS
For more information you can call our President on 0401 067 486, or click here to send an email. Images can be sent to the Hunter Island Press, PO Box 1198, Rosny Park TAS 7018 – don’t forget to include a stamped self-addressed envelope if you’d like it back.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO DONATE AN IMAGE?
The Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office would be pleased to receive any original photographs that you would like to donate.
They do not accept copies of originals, and would prefer that no restrictions are placed on the use of the photographs.
Any information that you can provide about each photograph, is greatly appreciated too.
If you have an image that you’d like to donate, bring it along to one of our upcoming workshops (dates TBA soon) or contact Robyn Eastley at the Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office on 03 6214 4896.
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Saturday, February 27th, 2010
HIP and Impress Printmakers of Brisbane have gotten together again on a new project. The last was the “Reel Heros Safe Beaches” project to celebrate “2007 The Year of the Surf Life Saver” in conjunction with Printmakers of Western Australia (PAWA), Warringah Printmakers in Sydney and the Newcastle Print Workshop in NSW.
The new theme, “Pine Apples – from pineapples to the apple isle” has been taken up enthusiastically by 34 artists who have developed an amazing range of responses in virtually every print medium.
The exhibition is being held at the Church Studio Gallery in Franklin until 7 March after which it transfers to the Myrtle Street Studio, Brisbane.
It was opened by Milan Milojevic, renowned artist, Master Printmaker and Head of Printmaking at the University of Tasmania’s School of Art. Milan spoke about the history of the print as art and of it’s democratic nature which enables it to be widely distributed and so bring art to the masses. A leading researcher in the use of digital technology within the print artists practice, he nevertheless pointed out that it is just another tool that printmakers can use to create art. That its current status is no different to that of lithography in days past when it was scorned as “merely a graphic medium” but has since become accepted as mainstream primarily due to the work of artists such as Goya, Degas, Odilon Redon, Mucha, Picasso, etc ( for information on lithography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithography).
Artists and visitors alike were fascinated by Milan’s address
and then enjoyed a closer inspection and discussion of the work
while a being entertained by local musicians who played tunes from the times of the apple shed dances when Tasmania was known throughout the world as the Apple Isle
With this eclectic collection it is no wonder that sales were brisk
Most have been produced as limited editions so there should still be a full complement to make the trip to Brisbane
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