Indian printmaker Mukesh Sharma will visit Australia in ealy 2004. His visit has been arranged by Judy Bourke who recently travelled in India. Mukesh will work at the Faculty of Creative Art, Wollongong University, where he will hold an exhibition. He will later visit other print workshops in the Eastern states of Australia.

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Australian printmaker Dean Bowen was very sucessful in Asia in 2003. He was awarded the Tai-he Masterpiece Award in Beijing, China and the Purchasing Prize at the 12th Space International Print Bienial, Seoul, Korea.

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Vietnamese printmaker Nguyen Van Cuong has been invited to Australia by the Hobsons Bay City Council and Arts Victoria. He will visit in January 2004, and will give tuition in traditional Vietnamese woodblock printing. He will also have the opportunity to learn lithography from Peter Lancaster. There will be reciprical exhibitions at the Councils gallery space in Altona and in Vietnam in March 2004.

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Anne Lord has been awarded the first Australia China Council residency in Shanghi. She previously held a two month residency at Red Gate Studio in Beijing.

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The Fifth Australian Print Symposium will be held at the National Gallery of Australia on 2, 3 and 4 of April 2004. Over these 3 days 18 speakers will address the importance of place, both physically and culturally, in the creation of printed works.

The key note address Cultural responsibilities past and present will be by Banduk Marika, a senior Yolngu woman from Yirrkala involved in both landcare and printmaking.

Representatives from various print workshops in Australia will present papers, as will artists who have worked in workshops here and overseas, in regional Australia, remote communities and in city streets. There will also be papers on printmaking in India Papua New Guinea and Singapore.

The Australian Print Symposium is a forum for printmakers/ practitioners, curators and art historians. It provides an opportunity for colleagues to meet both formally and informally during the Symposium and to view the complementary exhibitions and events.

The Symposium coincides with the major National Gallery of Australia exhibition place made: Australian Print Workshop, a celebration of the achievements of the Workshop and the acquisition by the Gallery of some 3,500 prints that formed their second archive of workshop proofs.

For full details of the Symposium programme, and associated events see www.australianprints.gov.au or registration details.

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On the 28th November 2003 the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery will present a major exhibition of the work of the Anglo-Australian painter John Glover (1767-1849).

John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque will be the most significant touring Australian art exhibition of 2004 and indeed the largest art exhibition ever produced by the Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery.
 
The exhibition will be part of the TMAG's Bicentenary of Tasmania Program

Although widely recognised as the father of Australian landscape painting, Glover's works are concentrated in a relatively few public collections, and this will be the first time in 25 years that a significant body of his work has been presented to the public.

The exhibition John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque will contain over 100 works – paintings, watercolours, drawings, prints and sketchbooks – borrowed from 15 museums, galleries, and libraries and from 13 private and corporate collections in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. (PR)

The exhibition includes a selection of Glover's prints, both autographic and reproductive. The catalogue contains an essay by Roger Butler, Glover's prints and printmaking.

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The 5th Australian Print Symposium will be held at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra on 2-4 April 2004. It will focus on the theme of "place made". It will be accompanied by numerous satellite exhibitions.

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Australian printmakers David Frazer, Darren Bryant and Kathy Holmes have been selected for exhibition at the 5th British International Print Exhibition opening at Gracefields Art Centre, Scotland on 19 November 2003. There were 1200 entries from 25 countries.

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The Capricorn Coast Art Festival, Queensland, is instituting a $750 prize for printmaking in its 2004 festival. Closing date for entries is 14 April 2004. For more information see www.rotarnet.com.au/yeppoon

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After 15  years in Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, Port Jackson Press are moving their gallery to 716 High Street Prahran, in the heart of the art and antique area. A new workshop will be located in Fitzroy. Roger Butler, Senior Curator, Australian Prints and Drawings at the Australian National Gallery will launch the new exhibition space on 12 November 2003.

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Circles in my Mind is an exhibition of prints and paper pulp works by Philippine artist Pacita Abad. Abad was invited to work at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute as part of its Visiting Artists Programme. Her exhibition at the STPI will be on display from 7 November 2003 - 25 January 2004.

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The Tate Adams Reading Room at Artspace Mackay, provides access to its important collection of artists' books. From November 2003  there will be weekly focus on particular artists' books every Sunday from 10.00am - 2.00pm.

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As part of the Art History program at the Victoria University of Wellington, David Maskill, Lecturer in Art History, sets his students a project that will result in a publication and exhibition. The project for 2003 was an examination of the Australian printmaker Lionel Lindsay. There is an important Linsay collection in the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, a gift of the widow of Harold Wright, the artist's London repesentative and friend.

The exhibition, Before Addled Art: The graphic art of Lionel Lindsay opened on 25 October 2003 at Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington. The catalogue has an essay by David Maskill and nine of his students.

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Megalo Access Arts is officially opening its new Watson print workshop and gallery on 5 November 2003. The new address is 49 Phillip Avenue, Watson, Australian Capital Territory.

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Entries for the 2004 Swan Hill Print and Drawing Prize close on the 1 March 2004.

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The winner of the $7,000 Major Aqusisitive Prize of the 28th Shell Fremantle Print Award was Antonietta Covino-Beehre for her artists' book Studio D'Una Citta (Study of a city). The book mixed media and included etching, cyanotype prints, wood-engraving and a lithographic text.

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Indonesian artist Heri Dono will produce a suite of etchings and linocuts while artist-in-residence at the Australian Print Workshop in September 2003.

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Newcastle Region Art Gallery is staging a major exhibition of the local artist Michael Bell. Director Nick Mitzevich notes in the introduction to the catalogue, "Michael Bell has been a pivotal figure in Newcastle. His art and teaching have influences many emerging artists over the last 20 years. Bell's is an accessible art and yet it has serious intent loaded with a strong personal vision".
Painter, ceramic artist and builder of constructions, Bell has made many screenprints over the last two decades.

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The Syney Art on Paper Fair will be held at the Byron Kennedy Hall, Fox Studios Australia, Moore Park, Sydney fromm 31 July to 3 August. There will be the usual high standard of participants from Australia and overseas as well as associated symposium. For more see www.turtlelane.com.au/SAPF

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The Australian War Memorial has published a handbook to its art collection with illustrations and essays on over 100 works including paintings, prints, drawings and sculpture. Prints include works by Ray Arnold, Barbara Hanrahan, Penang born Enid Ratnam-Keese and Trevor Lyons.

Wilkins, Lola (ed.), Artists in action, Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 2003. ISBN 0-642-50264-1

 

Gordon Darling, Chairman of the Australian National Gallery Council (June 1982-December 1986), first donated funds for the acquisition of contemporary Australian prints in to celebrate the opening of the gallery in 1982; then, in Australia's bicentenial year 1988, he established the Gordon Darling Australasian Print Fund with a capital grant of one million dollars.The Fund not only finances aquisitions, but also the Gordon Darling Scholar, Graduate intern and the access initiative www.australianprints.gov.au.

In a new book Building the collection  Gordon Darling is interviewed by Roger Butler Senior Curator of Australian Prints at the National Gallery of Australia. The publication includes essays on all facets of the collection.

Pauline Green (ed.), Building the collection. Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2003. ISBN 0-642-54202-3

 

Entries close for the 2003 Geelong Print Prize on Friday 25 April 2003.

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Chua Ek Kay is the first artist from Singapore to work at STPI as part of its Visiting Artists Programme. Mr Chua a gestural brush and ink painter produced a series of lithographs and hand-coloured pressed paper pulp works while at the print workshop. His exhibition Chua Ek Kay: Being and Becoming, The Lotus Pond Series will be on view at STPI from 14 February to 23 March 2003

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