Obviously it was time for our annual xmas get together in the HIP studio

Lots of food to share, a little bubbly and stories about our individual print years

And then there was secret santa, our xmas print exchange where everyone brings a small wrapped print to exchange and is given a number which is drawn at random from a hat (or in this case a basket)

all very exciting

Wishing all our friends and supporters a happy and peaceful xmas season and successful printing in 2012

Other worlds and curiosities, Milan Milojevic’s latest exhibition opens at the James Makin Gallery, 67 Cambridge Street, Collingwood at 6pm on the 10th and continues until 3 December. If you are in Melbourne make sure to see this latest body of work from a true Master Printer (you can also add them to your collection)

Island Diaries opened on October 6 and runs until Thursday October 20 so there is still time to catch this illuminating overview of the work of one of our most prolific printmakers.

The opening was well attended with some HIP members travelling up from Hobart for the experience.

Hopefully, these few images will whet your appetite for more

Congratulations Kaye

Church Studio Franklin is a multipurpose artspace located on the Huon Highway in a heritage listed church.  To book contact Patricia Zuber on 0421 456 656 or platform6@bigpond.com.

www.churchstudiofranklin.com.au

View the Hunter Island Press (HIP) calendar for more upcoming exhibitions, workshops and events, by clicking here: http://hunterislandpress.org.au/sub/hip-calendar/

Church Studio Franklin Tasmania:
http://www.churchstudiofranklin.com.au
Co-ordinator: Patricia Zuber (platform6@bigpond.com)
Dates: 17th Feb (opening night) to 26th Feb 2012

Impress Studio Brisbane Queensland:
http://www.impress.org.au
Co-ordinator: Jenny Sanzaro-Nishimura (jsanzaro@optusnet.com.au)
Dates: To be confirmed in 2012

Guidelines for Impress and HIP Members:
Theme: Works can be loosely based on the title, e.g. climate, climate differences, latitudes, Brisbane 27º, Hobart 42º, circles, lines, earth, globes.

Size/number of works: All work to fit into a paper sheet size 56x76cm (not the entire edition i.e. one print at 56×76 cm, two prints at half this size or 4 at a quarter). Please note that you do not necessarily have to do a full sheet’s worth of prints (you can do less), only that the total number of prints submitted not exceed this size. Also, you will need to supply two copies of each print so that if one sells in Tasmania, there is still another copy of that print available for the Brisbane show. For monoprints/monotypes, please still supply two and indicate on the form which show you would like each to be exhibited in

All works must be unframed to facilitate carriage and to be enclosed in a clear plastic slip case

Cost: Participation fee of $25.00 per person to cover expenses including transportation and 30% commission on sales.

Please make entry fee payment via direct deposit to:

Act Name: Patricia A Zuber
BSB: 484 799
Act No.: 049552251
Suncorp Metway

Please quote ‘CIRCLES’ and then the initial of your first name and full last name e.g. CIRCLESPZuber

Payment must be made by Friday, 16th December 2011. If you have any problems or need to pay in some other way, please contact Pat Zuber either via e-mail (platform6@bigpond.com) or by phone on 0421 456 656

Completed work is to be delivered no later than Monday 13th Jan 2012 to Church Studio Franklin, 3408 Huon Highway, Franklin for HIP members. Impress members to deliver prints to Impress at an earlier date in accordance with the Brisbane co-ordinator’s instructions.

All works submitted must be signed, dated and titled clearly. If your work is a bleed print, this information needs to be clearly recorded on the back of the work.

Please note that pricing varies between the mainland and Tasmania so keep this in mind when you are setting your prices

We will be taking either full payment from buyers or the option to pay a 40% non-refundable deposit with full payment prior to picking the work up on the last day of the exhibitions

Reimbursement for works sold will be made within two weeks of the closure of the final exhibition in Brisbane. Buyers will be allowed to collect prints on the final day of each show after its closure. Any works bought but not collected will need to be posted to buyers at the expense and co-ordination of the artist

If there is further interest shown for editions of works already sold, we will take down the interested parties’ details and forward these to the relevant artist. It is then the responsibility of the artist to contact and follow up any further sales of work

Unsold works can be collected from Church Studio Franklin or Impress by arrangement with the co-ordinators

Please be aware that participation will be expected in the hanging, opening night, including catering contributions, sitting and de-hanging of the exhibition. Further info on this along with a volunteer’s sheet will be provided in the lead-up to the Franklin and Brisbane openings

Please complete the forms (download by clicking on this link) and type labels as shown. Cut and paste more forms if needed. When submitting work, e-mail a copy of these to Pat Zuber (platform6@bigpond.com) along with a short (no longer than one page) bio on yourself. Cut out the completed tabs for individual works and paperclip to the artworks submitted. Labels will be copied and printed from your email attachment.

Email Pat (platform6@bigpond.com) if you have any questions.

Donated items appear in an internet-based catalogue prior to the event, as well as a printed catalogue on the night.

Artists can request a reserve price on their work(s); The auction attracts around 300 attendees. Lesley is aware of the type and quality of the work produced by HIP artists as she was one of the CSIRO scientists who took part in the Over the Edge collaboration last year.

If you would like to make a donation to the Friends School auction please contact Lesley at Lesley.Clementson@csiro.au or 0409 140 230.

You can also read more information on the Friends School website at this link: http://www.friends.tas.edu.au/howyoucanhelp/auction_2011

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.”

For all of you that asked, here are some images of the show

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