The French dealer Paul Prouté S.A. is offering a group of fifteen prints by the Australian born expatriate Edouard Goerg (1893-1969) in his December 2002 catalogue (no. 121).

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Master printer Kenneth Tyler, is in Australia to attend the opening of the exhibition The Big Americans at the National Gallery of Australia. While he is in Canberra Tyler will give a demonsration in lithography, hand-made paper and screenprinting at the School of Art, National Institute of the Arts, the Australian National University on Sunday 6 October 2002. Ring 02 6125 5810 for details and booking.

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The catalogue for the Korea-Australia exchange Exhibition of Prints, organised by the Print Council of Australia, RMIT University Fine Art Department, Melbourne and the Korean Contemporary Printmakers Association is now available. For copies contact the Print Council of Australia on 03 9328 8993 or email printcouncil@netspace.net.au

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A Passion for Paper is a retrospective of hand-made paper works produced at the Primrose Paperworks Co-operative. The Co-operative, which was formed in November 1990, operates from The Primrose ART & Craft Centre. The Centre also houses Primrose Park Photographers, Primrose Park Bookbinders and the Australian Society of Calligraphers. There is also a printmaking workshop. For more information see: www.primrose-park.com.au/NewPaper/papermaking.htm

The exhibition is at the Mosman art Gallery, Sydney from 18 May to 18 June 2002.

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Latest editions: 2001 postgraduate printmedia seminar, is a “collection of papers from a two day seminar of discussion and exhibitions focusing on current research related to the theory and practice of print-based art forms”. The seminar, hosted by the Australian National University, School of Art, Printmaking and Drawing Workshop on 24-25 April 2001 was conceived as an event to build on a weekend of debate and discussion at the 4th Australian Print Symposium at the National Gallery of Australia. Latest edition, contains contributions by Patsy Payne, Nigel Lendon, Elise Benamane, Justin Trendall, Laura Stark, Danie Mellor, Nicola Kaye, Sandy Saxon, Alison Munro, Mary Scott, Erica Seccombe, Suzanne Knight, Andrew Hurle, Murray Paterson and Deanne Gill.

Another seminar is planned for 2003. Contact Patsy Payne for more details: patsy.payne@anu.edu.au

Latest edition postgraduate printmedia seminar, Canberra: Printmedia and Drawing Workshop, ANU, 2002. ISBN 0-9579088-0-6

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The last novel by Stephen Scheding, A Small Unsigned Painting, was a 'who done it' starring Lloyd Rees; The National Picture, is a 'where is it' and concerns Benjamin Duterrau. It is about Scheding's quest for "a lost masterpeice...and the picture it paints of a nations destiny... The National Picture has been lost for more than 150 years. It depicts one of the most controversial moments of Australian history: the 'conciliation' of a group of Tasmanian Aborigines by George Augustus Robinson".

A good read. In the course of its speculations and heartrending quotes (those of Robinson), the book also records much on Duterrau as a printmaker. His etchings of the 1830s are remarkable in the context of their times.

Stephen Scheding,  The National Picture , Sydney: Vintage, 2002. ISBN 1-74051-066-6

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Edited by Michael Bogle, Designing Australia: Readings in the History of Design, is a collection of 38 articles on various aspects of the subject. A source book of primary texts, the scope of essays ranges from early colonial to contemporary. Part 7, Graphic arts includes Geoffrey Cabin ‘Australia's Early Agencies and Art Studios', Roger Butler 'Gert Sellheim and the Graphic Arts' and Anne-Marie van de Ven 'Clients and Designers. Australia Stamps 1930- 1960'

Michael Bogle (editor), Designing Australia: Readings in the History of Design . Annandale, NSW: Pluto Press, 2002. ISBN 1-86403-1735

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Bryon Wakefield, PhD candidate in Art History will present a seminar Bea Maddock: an interpretation of self at the Humanities Conference Rooms, A D Hope Building, Australian National University, 9 May 2002, 4.00 - 6.00 pm. All are welcome

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A suvey exhibition of bookworks by Ken Orchard, 1982 to present, is being toured by the Visual Arts Touring Program of Country Arts South Australia. The catalogue (an artist's book in its own right), has a major essay by Martin Thomas and documents the artists work over the last two decades.

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Cathy Leahy is the new Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery of Victoria. Her appointment was announced on 16 April 2002.

Cathy studied Fine Art and Russian at the Australian National University (1981-83), Honours (1986). She completed her MA at Monash University in 1989.

Cathy began her art museum career at the National Gallery of Australia in the Department of International Prints (1984-90), and in 1989 she was the Harold Wright Scholar in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum. Cathy has worked at the National Gallery of Victoria (Prints and Drawings) since 1990.

Her previous position, Curator of Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery of Victoria, will be advertised in The Australian and The Age , on 11 May 2002.

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Australian printmaker and painter Phil Clarke is holding an exhibition at the Zee Stone Gallery, Hong Kong from 23 May - 7 June 2002. The exhibition Windows of the sea, is in his new realist style. For more information see www.zeestone.com

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Curated by Anne Virgo, Director of the Australian Print Workshop, People in a Landscape: Contemporary Australian Prints highlighted work produced at the workshop. It includes prints by many Aboriginal artists - Janangoo/Butcher Cherel, Kitty Kantilla, Rosie Karadada, Pedro Wonaeamirri, Tommy May, Maryanne Mungatopi, Janice Murray, Freda Warlapinni and Judy Watson.

Other artists represented were Rick Amor, Rosalind Atkins, Graham Fransella, Euan Heng, Ruth Johnstone, Martin King, Deborah Klein, Kevin Lincoln, Akio Makigawa, Andrew Sibley and John Wolseley.

The exhibition  toured  Manila, Philippines, Taiwan, Singapore, Colombo, Srilanka, and Khon Kaen, Bangkok and Chiang Mai in Thailand during 2000-2002.

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Indigenous Art and Heritage & the Politics of Identity.
The aim of the conference is to examine the current state of indigenous interventionist policies relative to sites of visual art practice, delivery, dissemination, promotion and discourse within the Pacific Rim. Notions of 'hybridity' postulated in post-colonial discourse and the emergent voice of diaspora will provide a sub-stratum of discourse.

Project Concept and Background.
The project has been conceived as an opportunity to strengthen links between tangata whenua artists, curators, art commentators and writers with the indigenous peoples of the Pacific and other nations. The conference and exhibition form part of the RUAMANO series of lectures/conferences initiated by Te Putahi-a-Toi, the School of Maori Studies at Massey University in Palmerston North, in the 1990s through into the new millennium. The exhibition Genus Pacifica, and the conference entitled Indigenous Art and Heritage & the Politics of Identity are a continuation of the exhibition Te Hapai o ki Muri and the conference Toioho ki Apiti that focused on Maori art practice in 1996.

The project has been organised by Te Putahi-a-Toi, the School of Maori Studies, Massey University in Palmerston North, in partnership with the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and the Manawatu Art Gallery.

Palmerston North Convention Centre, 400 Main Street, Palmerston North, New Zealand, July 6, 8, 9, 2002

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Monique Auricchio has been appointed Acting Editioning Manager at Northern Editions after Basil Halls departure. Monique has been with the editioning workshop since 1997. Another long term employee, Rose Cameron, takes on the position of Acting Buisness Manager. The workshop is continuing its programe of working with Aboriginal printmakers.

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The sleep of reason is the title of an exhibition by Canberra based Australian printmakers Patsy Payne and John Pratt at the Canberra Museum and Art Gallery. Opened by Director of the Canberra School David Williams, it includes relief prints made during Patsys Artist's residency in Switzerland at Castle Haldenstein.

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The Northern Territory based printmaker Suzanne Knight, has been awarded the 2002 residency at Nagasawa, Japan.

For more about the innovative Nagasawa Art Park Artist-in-Residence: Workshop Program for Japanese Woodblock Printmaking see http://endeavor.or.jp/air/air.htm

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Islands in the sun, prints by indigenous artists of Australia and the Australian region will open at the Papua New Guinea National Museum and Art Gallery on 20 May 2002. The exhibition includes prints by Papua New Guinea artists Mathias Kauage, David Lasisi, Jakupa Ako, Cecil King Wungi, Timothy Akis and Martin Morumubuna. The prints, woodcuts and screenprints, were mainly produced in the 1960s to the early 1980s when printmaking flourished at Creative Arts Centre and later the National Arts School. The exhibition also includes prints by Aboriginal Australians, Maori artists and peoples of the Pacific region.

Papua New Guinea is also the focus of a major conference to be held at the University of Sydney on 11–12 July 2002. Hosted by the Research Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Papua New Guinea, Then and Now will evaluate the process of decolonisation in Papua New Guinea. Speakers include writers, teachers, aid workers, historians, political scientists and administrators.

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Woodblock Art in East Asia: links between the printmaking traditions of China, Japan and Korea.

Monochrome and colour woodblock illustration began in China, later spreading to other countries in East Asia where it created new traditions of printing and stimulated innovations in painting.

This two-day conference will explore the links between the printmaking traditions of China, Japan and Korea. Printed books and sheet prints were exported from China to Japan in the 17th and 18th centuries. Chinese printed manuals such as the Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Painting and Calligraphy and the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting had an influence on Ukiyo-e printing, and on painting in Japan in the 18th and 19th centuries. In the modern and contemporary periods, political printing has been followed by a period of experimentation and individualism displaying a diversity of borrowed styles.

A series of lectures given by specialists in the field of East Asian art will introduce and discuss important issues in the history of printmaking in this region. The conference is designed for specialists, collectors of East Asian prints and anyone interested in this field. The conference is being organised by Sothebys, London.

Venue: The Gilbert Collection. London  9 - 10 November 2002.

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The Sydney Printmakers exhibition Beyond the Surface , examines the “question of how meaning is to be found both within the work’s surface and its conceptual rationale, and how the two can be seemingly conflicting”.

The exhibition at the UTS Gallery, building 6, level 4, 702 Harris St., Ultimo, Sydney from 21 May to 14 June 2002.

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An exhibition of four printmakers Jude Taylor, Aileen Brown Anne Smith and Alisa Morgan is being shown at Chales Hewitt Gallery, 300 Glenmore Rd., Paddington, Sydney till 17 May 2002.

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Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, is hosting an international conference on printmaking from 17-19 May 2002. The theme is "Printed images: Strategies in Contemporary Art Practice."

See www.elam.auckland.ac.nz/printmaking/conference/home.html or email mt.millet@auckland.ac.nz for information.

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The Art Museum of the QUT Cultural Precinct presents the exhibition The Douglas Kagi Gift in Context; Contemporary Australian and International Prints from 3 May – 30 June 2002. The exhibition curated by Stephen Rainbird highlights a selection of prints by major Australian and international artists. These were gifted to the QUT Art Museum by Melbourne scientist and art collector Dr. Douglas Kagi in 2001. For more information see www.culturalprecinct.qut.edu.au

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As part of their 5th Anniversary Celebrations, John Batten Gallery, (Hong Kong) has The Great Print Exhibition. It is a survey of etchings, woodblock prints, photo-etchings and lithographs all previously unseen in the gallery. For more information see: www.geocities.com/SoHo/Exhibit/3386/Site.htm

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Tjidamar Printmaking Studio is an Indonesian Printmaking Organization which is located in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. Founded in 2001 as an open studio under the supervision of Indonesia Printmaking Foundation, it was originally RedPoint Printmaking Studio which has now been split into two divisions: RedPoint Printmaking Gallery and Tjidamar Printmaking Studio.

Tjidamar Printmaking Studio, equipped with 4 etching presses to produce relief, intaglio and aluminium plate lithographs, offers open studio access for local and international artists, as well as artists in residence. 

Contact Address:
Tjidamar Printmaking Studio, Komp. Cidamar Permai Kav. 2,  Gunung Batu - Bandung 40514, INDONESIA.
Ph./Fax +62 - 22 - 2017 990
email tjidamar@bdg.centrin.net.id web http://www.geocities.com/tjidamar/about_us.htm

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Terang Padi. Teeth of the Rice Plant is an exhibition of banners, woodcut poster prints and puppets by the Indonesian artist collective Tarang Padi. The project, organised by the Adelaide Festival and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade through the Australian Cultural Exchange Program, is at MUMA, Monash University Museum of Art, Clayton, Victoria from 30 April  15 June 2002.

For details see: www.monash.edu.au/muma

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Ron McBurnie, Head of Printmaking at James Cook University, will be Visiting Artist in the Printmedia and Drawing Workshop, School of Art, Australian National University, from 22 April - 22 June 2002.

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A small but important exhibition of woodcut prints produced in Singapore in the 1950s and 1960s is currently on display at the National University of Singapore Museum. The exhibition is based on the work of former Assistant Curator Joyce Fan (now at SAM). Curated by Teo Marianne, the exhibition is accompanied by a modest but informative brochure. Printmaking at that time, was derived from Chinese revolutionary models, and depicts the social ills prevalent in Singapore after the Japanese occupation (1942-1946).

Marianne Teo notes in her essay:  “Although the artists took the lead from China, their psyche was rooted in Singapore. The medium, the materials and the tools were imported from China but the subject matter was, to use a contemporary word, Malayan. Like their counterparts in China, the local Chinese artists took on the social responsibility of exposing the ills of society and at the same time celebrating the socialnbsp; good they saw.”

The exhibition includes woodcuts by Tan Tee Chie, Lee Kee Boon, See Cheen Tee, Koeh Sia Yong, and Choo Keng Kwang. There is also contextual books and magazines from China and Singapore.

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Gordon and Marilyn Darling have presented the Singapore Art Museum with Crossroads: The Millennium Portfolio of Australian Aboriginal Prints. The portfolio includes original prints by Johnny Bulunbulun, Robert Cole, Kitty Kantilla, Mick Kubarkku, Queenie McKenzie, Ada Bird Petyarre, Gloria Petyarre, Ginger Riley, Rover Thomas, Ronnie Tjampitjinpa, Turkey Tolsen and Judy Watson.

  “ Aboriginal prints are a new art form contemporary, affordable and available. We hope that they will prove to be a popular and exciting addition to Singapore Art Museum's growing permanent collection" writes Gordon Darling.

At the official handover in Singapore on the 12 April, Roger Butler, Senior Curator of Australian Prints at the Australian National Gallery gave an introductory lecture on printmaking by Aboriginal Australians.

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Alex Selenitsch, the Gordon Darling Fellow for 2001, will present a floor talk at the Australian National Gallery on 23 April. Alex will discuss a number of Australian artists books presently on display in Australian gallery 7.  The display includes books by Ian Burn, Robert Jacks, Mike Parr, Anne Brennan, Merilyn Fairskye and Bea Maddock.

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Australian Galleries, Works on Paper, Sydney are holding an exhibition of wood-engravings by Australian printmaker Rosalind Atkins. The exhibition dates,  6 April 

Island Life, Robin White in New Zealand and Kiribati, an exhibition toured by The Hocken University Library, University of Otago, Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand, presents a wide selection of Whites printed works from the 1980s to the present. The brochure has an informative essay by Linda Tyler.

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City of Hobart Art Prize 2002, Jewellery / Works on Paper. The acquisitive prize of $7500 for Works on Paper was won by printmaker Jorg Schmeisser for his The Hazards, the beach is different after every tide – an engraving with pencil and watercolour.

Lord Mayor, Alderman Rob Valentine said “The Prize now in its 14th year attracted a near record number of entries in the nominated art and craft forms from craftspeople, artists and designers in all parts of the nation.” This year there were 259 entries for Works on Paper and 118 for Jewellery. “The task of selecting the 70 artists for inclusion in the 2002 City of Hobart Art Prize was expertly handled by the prestigious Judging Panel. They included Grace Cochrane, Senior Curator Australian Decorative Arts and Design at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Dr Benjamin Gennocchio, National Art Correspondent with The Australian Newspaper, and Hobart Art Writer and author, Peter Timms”.

The works can be seen at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, from 28 March – 19 May 2002

For more information see http://www.hobartcity.com.au/artprize/artprizewinners.htm

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Stint is an exhibition of work produced by artists Stuart Bailey, Thea Katauskas, Leah Manwaring and Alison Munro,  all of whom participated in Megalo Access Arts 2001 Printmaker in Residence Program. The exhibition will be at Spiral Arm Gallery, Canberra, 10-21 April 2002.

Email megaloht@cyberone.com.au for more details of the program.

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The National Gallery of Australia touring exhibition Landscapes in Sets and Series, Australian Prints 1960s-1990s, will be at the Bendigo Art Gallery from 6 April-12 May 2002. The exhibition will be opened by Anne McDonald, Senior Assistant Curator, Australian Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery of Australia.

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During February 2001, there were 4,890 visitors to this website - they viewed 197,084 web pages. 

Entry forms for the Shell Fremantle Print Award are now available. The judging panel will award prizes in two catagories: A major acquisitive prize of $5,000 for a print or artists book in any print medium; A non-aquisitive prize of $2,500 for a print or artists book in any print medium.

Phone 08 9432 9555; fax 08 9430 6613; email hollys@fremantle.wa.gov.au

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Imprint, the journal of the Print Council of Australia volume 37, no.1, Autumn 2002 includes articles on Bruno Leti's dualism (Dianne Waite), Digital Ghosts (Damian Smith), Martin Lewis (Kirsten McKay), Frank Hodgkinson (Anne McDonald) and reviews of As the crow flew...prints by Barry Cleavin (Michael Young), phICTION (James McArdie, The Rena Ellen Jones Memorial Print Award (Allan Mann) and a discussion between Marion Manifold and Louise Tegart.

The magazine also includes smaller reviews, and information on the Australian print world. To subscribe email printcouncil@netspace.net.au 

Neil Roberts, sculptor, glass artist, community artist, art activist, printmaker and a great friend and colleague to all, died tragically in an accident near his home in Queanbeyan, NSW on 21 March 2002.

Not a printmaker in the traditional manner, Neil was fascinated by the many ways that images could be replicated. He discussed his work producing prints from bituminised wrapping paper while in the Philippines at the Third Australian Print Symposium; his prints produced by bouncing inked-up balls on paper were exhibited at the Helen Maxwell Gallery in 2001; and at the Fourth Australian Print Symposium 2001 he orchestrated the production of a suite of prints by artsts at the conference using a spirit duplicator. A later artists book utilising the same process,  Tic Tock , celebrated the turning of the millennium.

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Dr Brian Kennedy, Director of the National Gallery of Australia, launched Danny Moynihans new artist's book Men of Ireland at the Celtic Club in Melbourne on 13 March 2002.

The book has text by Peter Mathers printed at Lyre Bird Press, Townsville, with lithographs printed at Lancasrer Press, Melbourne. The artist printed his own etchings at his studio in Richmond, Victoria.

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Entries for the 2002 Silk Cut Award for Linocut Prints close on 17 May 2002. Entry forms can be obtained from Di Waite - phone 03 9429 4885, email diwaite@netspace.net.au 

Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland,provides brief biographical information, reproductions and contact information for 105 local artists. It includes well known and many unfamiliar artists who work in a variety of mediums. Printmakers, mainly working with linocuts, are well represented.

Demozay, Marion. Gatherings. Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art From Queensland Australia. Southport, Queensland: Keeaira Press, 2001. ISBN 0 9585291 4 0 

The exhibition Lyre Bird Press in Full Flight, of limited edition artsts' books from Lyre Bird Press, Townsville, will be at the Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria 23 March-27 April 2002. 

BIA Art Classes, Windsor, Queensland, offer printmaking classes in woodcut printing and digital imaging among other things. See more at http://biart.cjb.net 

Darwin based Aboriginal Australian artist, printmaker Judy Watson is the recipient of a Residency at the University of Hawaii. Judy will exhibit her etchings and work with indigenous Hawaiian and other students while in Honolulu. 

Basil Hall has left Northern Editions at Northern Territory University, and is setting up his own print workshop in Darwin. Basil has now been a key player in two highly successful print workshops, Studio One in Canberra and Northern Editions in Darwin. One can presume that his latest venture will continue his high professional standards. 

Catherine Pilgrim, Deborah Klein and Shane Jones are presenting their exhibition Common threads at Mass Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria from 20 March - 6 April 2002. For more see www.massgallery.com.au 

The National Art School, Sydney, is conducting a number of intensive 5 day workshops for artists in their Winter School programme, 8-12 July 2002. Peter Lancaster will conduct the lithography workshop. Enquiries (02) 9339 8744 

The latest newsletter of the Printmakers Association of Western Australia (no.3., 2001-2002), introduces a new feature - Print Profile. This  issue features a woodblock print and words by local member Jan Telfer.

The newsletter also includes an entry form for Prints WA 2001 , an acquisitive award, to be held in June 2002. 

The Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI) that will open in April 2002, is a collaboration between master printer Ken Tyler, the Ministry of Information Communications and the Arts, the Heritage Board and the Singapore Tourism Board.

The STPI is located in a restored warehouse in the historic river-front precinct of Robertson Quay, and includes the Tyler workshop and a state-of-the-art gallery. Singapore, Tyler notes, is strtegically situated at the right place in the Asia Pacific for East West dialogue. 

An etching The Diligence Party,  by the Aotearoa New Zealand born artist Ernest Heber Thompson (1891-1971), is the current featured print at the website of printdealer Elizabeth Harvey-Lee. dspace.dial.pipex.com/smarson/ehlfront.htm 

(W)ink, an exhibition of six Australian woman printmakers working in Townsville, will open on Friday 1st March at 7.00. The prints are by Rebekah Butler, Donna Foley, Jo Lankester, Anne Lord, Cheryl McGannon and Jill O'Sullivan. Roger Butler, Senior Curator of Australian Prints, National Gallery of Australia will open the exhibition. He will also present a talk on contemporary Australasian printmaking on Saturday 2nd March. 

Jan Hogan, well known for her lithographs, has returned from the Northern Territory and is once more in Canberra. Jan will be Visiting Artist at the School of Art, National Institute of the Arts, ANU from 25 February - 7 June. 

Over 100 prints by 35 students from the Royal University of Fine Arts were recently exhibited in Cambodia. "During a six week period, Sasha Constable, an upcoming British artist, conducted a print workshop with level I,II, and III art students. The resulting artworks are as varied as the individuals who made them. From abstract colour scenes to sharp lines of black & white -sometimes amusing and often refreshing. The traditional symbols of Khmer culture play a dominent role as subjects, but are interrupted by unexpected elements from the students' enviroment". [blurb] 

Islands in the sun; Prints by indigenous artists of Australia and the Australasian region, a National Gallery of Australia travelling exhibition in conjunction with Cairns Regional Gallery, will open at Cairns on Friday 22 March 2002. The exhibition curators were Roger Butler, Senior Curator of Australian Prints and Drawings at the Australian National Gallery and Brian Robinson, Curator of Indigenous Art at the Cairns Regional Gallery. The Gallery will be holding a special community day which will include Torres Strait Islander artist Robert Mast demonstrating linocut printmaking. 

Press release: Three printmakers: on a roll.

Ellie Bunt, Machteld Hali and Helen Nugent, are exhibiting original prints at the Berry Courthouse, cnr Victoria, Albany Sts, 22-28 February, 2002 with an official opening Saturday 4-6 pm.

The printmakers share productive and successful careers and a vital approach to creating evocative images. They are experienced in the tradition of printmaking yet diverse in their interpretation and response to the theme. Many collectors, national as well as international seek their work.

Bunt became a printmaker in Townsville during 1979/81 under the guidance of Ron McBurnie, now of Lyrebird Press. She works with etchings, woodcuts, linocuts and monotypes on her own press. She enjoys the adventure of the unknown, the risks and surprises that the printmaking medium involves. New ideas, possibilities and even mistakes that emerge when working on a print are all important in obtaining brave and innovative results. This exhibition includes some of her monotypes of the South Coast and woodcuts of old, collapsing Australian sheds.

Hali's fascination for the human form allows her to use this theme, 'on a roll' to experiment with imagery of bodies in movement. She delights in the constantly seductive rhythms, vulnerability, integrity yet comic potential of the body.

Her passion for viscosity printed collagraphs allows her to explore the beauty of things right under her nose, the bits and bobs, a carpet runner, object of intimate personal meaning. It allows also a vigorous approach to colour, design and an exploration of accidental effects.  The expression of the relationship with all her objects is one of love, whimsy and warmth.

Nugent is a visual artist and teacher. Her images reflect an enduring interest in drawing the figure from memory and imagination. She often uses distortion, idealisation or even caricature as a 

Clean cut. A selection of Linocuts by Adelaide artist Pip Comport, is available in selected bookshops (AGSA). Published in a limited edition of 1000 copies in 1997, it includes reproductions of over 50 linocuts with accompanying text. 

As the crow flew, sequences and consequences, the prints of Barry Cleavin, is a major survey exhibition of this important printmaker who works in Aotearoa New Zealand. The exhibition will be at the Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria untill 17 March 2002. Gippsland has had a long history with printmakers from Aotearoa New zealans, Kees Hos being an early lecturer at the Gippslang Institute of Technology, Yinnar South.