Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
Congratulations to Kaye Green for her recent win in the 2011 Community Printmakers of Murwillumbah National Print Awards . Kaye was awarded the Friends of the Tweed River Art Gallery $2000 Acquisitive Award for her lithographic print, “the thinker”.
Professor Sasha Grishin who judged the awards had this to say about his work as a judge, “Judging an art award is always a shortcut to unpopularity for the judge with righteous frustration expressed by the un-awarded competitors. To save you the breath, yes, you are right, the judge was wrong and a different result would have been obtained by another judge. Nevertheless here are the results”
and about Kaye’s work, “Kaye Green is one of the finest lithographers in the country, now based in Tasmania, who has created this icon of the mind of a tree. The more one contemplates on this image the more its contemplative Zen quality will open itself to the viewer. It may be a private quality that I admire within a print, but it is this ability to constantly feed and enrich the viewer over a prolonged period of time which is one of its most distinguishing features. A guarantee – the more you spend with this print, the more you will be enriched.”
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Thursday, October 28th, 2010
Alderman Jock Campbell, the Mayor of Clarence, officially opened this interpretive exhibition last night in The Barn which is part of the Rosny Farm art and exhibition complex. He was joined by senior staff from the Tasmanian Archives and Heritage Office (TAHO), the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG), other aldermen and interested members of the Clarence community.
The exhibition is part of the Clarence council’s 150 year sesquicentenary celebrations and is the result of a project run by Hunter Island Press which solicited old photographs from people in the community.
These photo were scanned and then turned into contemporary art images by seven HIP artists using digital technology
Although the exhibition is only on for one week (26-31 October) everyone agreed that it was a very successful project, that we learned a lot about the community where our studio is and expanded our working knowledge of digital printmaking.
HIP members also ran four free workshops on scanning techniques based on the processes used by TAHO which proved very popular
HIP acknowledges the support of Clarence Council, the Tasmanian Heritage and Archives Office and members of the community who provided us with the images for this project.
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