The Red Ochre Award given annually by the Australia Councils Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board to an Indigenous Australian Artist will be awarded to Aboriginal painter and printmaker Banduk Marika at a special ceremony on 11 December 2001.

Bunduk Marika 'was one of the first Yolngu women to make an impact on the art world with a series of lino-cuts based on sacred subject matter in the mid-1980s. Her internationally recognised printmaking has been exhibited throughout Australia as well as the Alcheringa Gallery (Canada) and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Ms Marika is also at the forefront of the fight for Indigenous artists' rights...'

Frank Hodgkinson 1919 – 2001.
FrankHodgkinson died at his home on the outskirts of Sydney on 20 October 2001. Born in Sydney in 1919, Hodgkinson studied art with Dattilo Rubbo in the late 1930s. During the Second World War he served in the Middle East and New Guinea, and was an official war artist in Borneo.

After the war, Hodgkinson travelled to Europe.  Here he immersed himself in the art of Europe’s great museums and studied at art schools in London and Paris. He developed a creative empathy with Spain and modern Spanish art and returned to live there in 1958. Originally a figurative artist, he found himself in sympathy with Canogar, Cela, Suarez, Tapies and other Spanish moderns. His art became more abstract and expressive and his interest in depicting the forms and textures of the landscape were developed. 

In 1970, drawn by the landscape of his birth, Hodgkinson returned to live in Australia. He was artist-in-residence at the National Art School, Papua New Guinea, during 1977 and in 1979 artist-in-residence at the University of Melbourne. In 1978 he began the first of almost a decade of annual trips to the Northern Territory.  These travels resulted in the publication of Sepik diary (1982) and Kakadu and the Arnhem Land (1987).  Hodgkinson continued to travel widely throughout his life, capturing the world in his drawings, prints and paintings.

In an obituary in the Sydney Morning Herald on 23 October, Hodgkinson’s wife Kate spoke of a man who loved life and living. "In the early evening we realised he was sinking so we made some spaghetti and got a bottle of Grange and we sat around and drank it for and with him. [We] brought an Egyptian sarcophagus into the bedroom … because the Egyptians know their way through the netherworld and played his favourite music Miles Davis' Sketches ofSpain. I had my hand on his heart and I reali

Contact Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Horseshoe Bend, Swan Hill, Victoria, 3585 for entry form.

For more info about the 2002 Silk Cut Awards see www.silkcut.com.au

Crothers, Tayna. Barbara A. Davidson. Doubble Bay, NSW: Milhau Press, 2001. ISBN 0 646 41219 1

Subject: Print Council of America announcement May 10, 2001
Dear Colleague:This email is to inform you that the Print Council of America has completed its on-line database of oeuvre catalogues of European and American printmakers.  The Index to Print Catalogues Raisonné (IPCR) is available free of charge via the Internet and can be searched by pointing your browser to www.printcouncil.org and selecting "Search Oeuvre Catalogues."

IPCR contains information and bibliographic citations on over 13,000 printmakers and their work.  More than 5,000 publications, ranging in date from the eighteenth century to 2001, were examined and indexed for inclusion in the database. IPCR includes material compiled by Timothy Riggs and published in 1983 asThe Print Council Index to Oeuvre-Catalogues of Prints by European and American Artists as well as supplemental information on print catalogues raisonné published since the completion of Riggs.Because of the supplemental material, the information in IPCR adds a new dimension to the familiar brown and gold reference volume used in many print rooms and art libraries.  For example, the artist William Blake (1757-1827) was listed in Riggs with six citations, but now has eleven.  New artist names and their relevant publications have also been added. The artist Henri Matisse (1869-1954) and his three citations (all published after 1982) will be found in IPCR even though Matisse is not listed in the bound version of Riggs. 

Additionally, we have updated and corrected artists' birth and death dates, added nationality information, and introduced searchable variations on artist-name spellings.Much scholarly work on American printmakers and on twentieth-century artists has been completed in recent decades.  IPCR contains numerous entries