Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
The 2011 workshop program got off to a great start with Kaye Green’s Deconstruction/reconstruction workshop on Sunday 13 march.
Kaye explained the reasons for her passionate attachment to reworking images into alternate forms such as collages or artist’s books and showed many samples of her own work.
All the participants quickly adapted to this new way of looking at their prints. Working singly or in small groups they started playing around with Kaye’s ideas and by the lunch break we could see exciting new pieces starting to take shape.
Perhaps the outcome is best summed up by one of the artists who said,’I feel that it has opened up a new way of working for me, and a new format. I love the idea of making books in all sorts of ways, re-using old work, and also making new work specifically for book making’
Thanks again Kaye for your inspirational facilitation of this workshop
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Friday, February 4th, 2011
Sunday 30 January – through the combined efforts of HIP and the Fern Tree Printmakers, Melbourne artist Marco Luccio was enticed to spend a couple of hours talking about his work and twenty years of experience as a print artist.
After showing a short video about how he makes his work (which you can find here on his website)
he talked enthusiastically about implements, tools, paper, presses, ink and the nitty gritty of his mark making. Naturally, the 29 printmakers present pestered him with questions which were answered with great candour.
Marco’s passion for drypoint etching, the influences of Piranesi, Martin Lewis and Herta Kluge-Pott and his desire to always include some marked reference to the site of his images were all discussed.
Then we were treated to 8kg of prints which he had brought with him from Melbourne especially for the occasion
Nothing compares with inspecting prints first hand. Thanks Marco for giving us your time and sharing your passion
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