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Annual General Meeting Coming Up on 15th March
This year we are having our Annual General Meeting at the HIP studio in Bellerive. The meeting will start at 10.30am on Saturday March 15th. Tea and coffee will be provided.
Please make it a priority to attend, bring along your ideas for HIP and meet the new committee after you have voted them in, or become one of the committee members.
Membership Due
Annual membership is due for renewal, for those who have not paid it recently. Yearly membership is $50 for waged and $30 for unwaged. The committee is hoping for early payment by members to cover the major costs such as $1200 for insurance and freight for our new Litho Press $2850. Payments can be posted to Hunter Island Press Inc, 3 Heathorn Street, Sandy Bay, TAS 7003. Or in person to John Robinson, Printmaking technician at the Tas School of Arts Printmaking Studio.
Print Profile - Mayu Kawasaki
Presses Coming to HIP
During the last few months HIP has been fortunate enough to have 2 presses donated for future use.
Etching Press: via UTAS Printmaking to the West Coast and back is a 38cm wide wheel press. It is currently in storage and awaiting the final redevelopment.
Lithographic Press: a generous donation of a litho press including rollers, stones and assorted equipment has been negotiated from NSW. This press has gone into storage until the redevelopment provides more space.
This now means that we only need to acquire a larger etching press to have a well equipped studio. The amount of equipment we have is astounding for an organisation that is only 3 years old, hopefullly we will have news of a larger studio in the near future.
The press pictured above is the Etching press we have in storage, a generous loan from the Printmaking Department Tas School of Arts.
HIP Studio Update
The studio is currently open on Mondays and Tuesdays between 9am - 5pm, the number of people who can effectively use the facility at the same time is two. It is therefore essential that you make a booking if you wish to print there and that you have a familiarisation tour before accessing the workspace. Please contact John by email or phone if you wish to make a booking or have a tour of the place.
- John Ingleton
- Public Officer
- Phone: 62250332
- Mobile: 0401 067 486
- Email: lithographie[at]iprimus.com.au
The studio is located behind Wirksworth House, the entrance is off South Street, near the intersection with Wentworth Street, Bellerive.
HIP Happenings
HIP AGM - 15 March 2008
Old Bakery Gallery - Sydney
All the mini prints have been sent off to the Old Bakery Gallery at 22 Rosenthal Avenue, Lane Cove. There are 13 participants with a total of 31 editions. The opening is sometime in March. If in Sydney the opening hours are 10am to 5pm, Tuesday to Saturday.
Mini Print Sale 12-16 June School House Gallery Rosny
Start printing now to be ready for the delivery fo prints to the Wirksworth Studio before Friday the 30th May, last Friday before school holidays.
Meadowbank Harvest Day
Hunter Island Press have been invited by Meadowbank Winery to capture the essence of Harvest Day and produce some prints of which a selection will be editioned for 10 boxed sets. Prints will be priced at $300 and the boxed set at $2,500 - $3,000 and marketed through the Meadowbank mailing list.
Harvest days are 6th and 25th April and prints due in June. Please contact John Ingleton if interested in being involved.
TLWW Project
A cooperative project for Tasmanian Living Writer’s Week in August based on the Japanese poetry form known as Haiku.
In a similar manner to our previous project with Eastern Shore Writers Group and based on text published by Pardalote Press the prints would be postcard size and displayed at Rosny Library during TLWW. Please contact John Ingleton if interested in being involved.
General Opportunities
Love & Clutter - Supporting Local Art & Design
Monique & Leonie welcome emerging & established Tasmanian designers / artists / makers to contact us in regards to potentially selling their product in our Hobart store alongside other local creatives. We welcome photos of work via email. For further information contact Monique or Leonie at 31 Murray Street, Hobart 7000 on 62242222 or email loveandclutter[at]gmail.com. Closing date: 30 May 2008.
Australian Print Workshop
Program of workshops is available at Baldess Inpress.
Tasmanian Living Writers Week
Will be held across the island state between 15 and 24 August 2008. Calling all writers, publishers, book groups, artists, musicians, foodies and lovers of Tasmanian culture. This unique biennial festival, the only one of its kind in Australia, enables you to create your own event to help celebrate Tasmanian books and writing and our vibrant and diverse literary culture.Host your own event in one of these six categories:
- Words, Wine, Food
- Words & Music
- Words & Art
- Readings / Host an author
- Workshops
- Book launch / Exhibitions
You can register online for all of these categories between 7 and 30 March 2008 at Arts Tasmania.
Around the Galleries
Luke Wagner Gallery
46a Elizabeth Street, Hobart.
Vivienne Breheney & Tomayo Leahy till 22 March 2008.
HIP Membership
HIP membership is open to anyone interested in printmaking. Fees are for each calendar year are: $50 if employed and $30 if unemployed. Full time benefits include HIP studio, discounts on supplies, inclusion in annual exhibition, and other events as they occur from tiem to time.
- HIP Mailing List Address:
- Hunter Island Press Inc.
- 3 Heathorn Street
- Sandy Bay, TAS 7003
HIP News - Contributions
HIP News is a new initiative to help communication amongst members. If you have any stories or news related to HIP or Printmaking please email John Robinson at jthumb[at]bigpond.com or call 62264354 (BH). Deadlines for 2008 are May 12, August 12 and November 12.
HIP News will be emailed to all members on the email list, available as a downlaod from the HIP website and distributed in galleries and art supply stores.
