Summer Imprint has articles on collaborative works from the Canberra School of Art Editions + Book Studio; the Gallery 101 initiative of the New York / Australia print exchange exhibition; NGA exhibition Printed Light; and Belinda Fox working with Aboriginal artist Dorothy Napangardi in association with Crown Point Press (USA), Port Jackson Press and Gallery Gondwanna. The are also articles on printmakers Jenni Kamp, Julia Silvester, the Shell Freemantle Art Award and all the news.

Imprint (journal of the Print Council of Australia), vol.39, no.4, Summer 2004

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Jane Messenger, the Art Gallery of South Australia’s Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs is the winner of this year’s prestigious Harold Wright Scholarship to study at the British Museum in London. The Harold Wright Scholarship, offered annually through the University of Melbourne, gives the recipient privileged access to research the world’s largest and finest print collection. Ms Messenger will undertake intensive study in London from July to December 2005 to trace the development of the Western print tradition and develop her print connoisseurship. Ms Messenger commenced as the Gallery’s Assistant Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs in November 2002 and was recently promoted to the rank of Associate Curator. She curated the Gallery’s highly successful exhibition Japanese Prints: Images from the Floating World (2004) and was author of the accompanying book. She was the co-ordinating curator in Adelaide for the Gallery’s current Australians in Hollywood exhibition touring from the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra. [AGSA press release]

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The Summer 2004 edition of Printmaking Today [London], has a review by Simon Brett of the recent Fred Williams exhibition at the British Museum.

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An exhibition of prints by 19 printmakers from Bangladesh is presently on display at Atelier Lacouriere et Frelaut, Paris. The exhibition 19 Graveurs du Bangladesh, is presented by L'Alliance Francaise de Dacca and will be open untill 10 July 2004.

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The 9th Festival of Pacific Arts will be held in Koror, Republic of Palau from the 22 - 31 July 2004. The festivals theme Oltobed a Malt: Nature, Regenerate and Celebrate honors Pacific histories, languages, arts, traditions and culture. 26 Pacific Nations will attend. See more at www.festival-pacific-arts.org

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A review of Surface Tension an exhibition of Australian prints recently held in New York has appeared in Asian Art News (May/June 2004). In her introduction the author Carmel Wallace notes "The world of contemporary Australian printmaking is alive and well across the land. To understand the extraordinary complexity of their nation Australian print artists have adopted a great diversity of voices and imagery. A concern for the enviroment and a search for a personel cultural identity are at the heart of many artists work."

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From Paris with love: The graphic arts in France  1880s-1950s opened at the National Gallery of Victoria International on 6 April 2004. The exhibition and catalogue by Alisa Bunbury showcase the NGVs judicially seected aquisitions of French prints from Impressionism to the School of Paris (the ealiest acquisition is from 1914). Beautifully hung, the exhibition also included a number of Japanese prints. The 112 page catalogue is informative and well illustrated.

Alisa Bunbury,  From Paris with love: The graphic arts in France  1880s-1950s. Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2004. ISBN 0-7241-0245-0

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The Geelong Gallery exhibition More than a Memory, the art of Elizabeth Parsons opened on 10 April 2004. Parsons, one of the first professional artists to work in Victoria, was both a successful exhibitor of watercolours and drawings, and teacher. In 1882 she published two volumes titled Drawing book of Australian landscape, each illustrated with eight lithographed images. The exhibtion is accompanied by a comprehensive catalogue by Veronica Filmer

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Australian printmakers Raymond Arnold and Andrew Antoniou feature in the Spring 2004 edition of the English journal Printmaking Today. Katherine McDonald writes on Raymond Arnold and his long-term association with France, while Anne Ridell interviews Andrew Antoniou about his printmaking since he came to Australia 30 years ago.

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His Honour Mr Ted Egan AO Administrator of the Northern Territory will launch a delux suite of etchings by emerging Aboriginal artists from Warmun on Tuesday May 11 2004 at The Supreme Court of the Northern Territory. The prints were produced at Northern Editions, Charles Darwin University, Darwin.

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Dianne Fogwell and Meg Buchanen, the founders of the initial Studio One, will discuss its foundation at the ANU School of Art Art Forum on Thursday 29 April 2004. The forum, which is being held in conjunction with Canberra Museum and Art Gallery, will be held in their theatrette at 12pm.

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 Contemporary Australian prints from the collection.
Art Gallery of New South Wales, 3 April – 6 June 2004.

This exhibition presents a selection of contemporary Australian prints from the Gallery's collection. It includes major multi-sheet works, intimate wood engravings and etchings, prints by Aboriginal artists, artists' books and works from portfolios, and reveals something of the diversity of printmaking practice in Australia over the last fifteen years. [AGNSW blurb]

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The second Sydney Aboriginal and Oceanic Art Fair (SAOAF) will be held at the Overseas Passangers Passanger Terminal, Circular Quay, Sydney from 27 - 30 May 2004.
The fist fair was a great success and other Pacific nations including Tonga, Tivalu, Solomon Islands, Kiribati, Easter Island and Aotearoa New Zealand will be represented at the 2004 fair.
To keep up to date with details of the fair visit www.saoaf.com.au

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Programme for the 5 minitue KEEPING IN TOUCH session of the Fifth Australian Print Symposium
Sunday 4 April - 10.00 – 10.45 am

> Proposed Print Workshop for Queensland - Angela Gardner
> Some recent work - Marion Manifold
> Print Council of Australia - Gwenda Flintoff
> Singapore Tyler Print Institute - Ong Boo Chai
> NGV: New Prints and Drawings facilities - Alisa Bunbury
> Franck Gohier workshops, Dr Douglas Kagi gift to Wollongong City Gallery - Glen Barkley
> Warringah Print Workshop - Geraldine Berkemeier
> Sydney Printmaker’s Forthcoming collaborative project - Graham Marchant
> AGNSW Contemporary Australian Prints exhibition, 2005  Sydney Art on Paper Fair - Anne Ryan

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Entries for the 2004 NWOP (National Works on Paper) award close on Friday 14 May 2004. The award includes a $5,000 Aquisitive prize and $15,000 acquisition funds.
For more information see http://mprg.mornpen.vic.gov.au

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Entries for the 2004 NWOP (National works on Paper) award close on Friday the 14 May 2004. The $20,000 Award is made up of a $5,000 Aquisitive Award and aquisition funds of $15,000. For more details see http://mornpen.vic.gov.au

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The Fifth Australian Print 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.The National Gallery is also hosting the following print exhibitions during the Symposium:
> Selected prints from the Silk Cut Foundation collection
> Focus: Neil Emmerson, Brent Harris and Ralph Hotere
>  After image: Screenprints of Andy Warhol

Other print exhibitions in Canberra coinciding with the Symposium are:
> Place original face down to copy
> Art from the collection of Ruth Prowse
> Contemporary Australian prints including work by Graham Fransella, Dean Bowen, Belinda Fox, Marina Ky and Christina Cordero
> Bevan Honey and Linda Rice
> Jorg Schmeisser: Breaking the ice. Works from Antartica 1998-2003
> Studio One Workshop proofs, the CMAG collection
> Through the valley. Recent stencil prints by Robin White
> Body press. Print media works by Barbara Campbell, Kate Lohse and Patsy Payne
> The year of the Dragon, prints by Jackie Gorring
> Contour, Megalo Access Art, artists in residence exhibition 2003

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

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The Autumn edition ofImprint, the quarterly magazine of the Print Council of Australia has articles on the Australian Print Workshop (to coincide with the exhibition place made: Australian Print Workshop at the Australian National Gallery); the Artists' Open Studio weekend at Wanganui, Aotearoa New Zealand; Dorothy Manieros linocuts of Maria Island; Lionel Lindsay in Spain; Daniel Moynihan, Floria Tosca; Alexis Beckett; the Mezzotints of Graeme Peebles, as well as smaller reviews and exhibition notices.

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The family of Mathias Kawage, who died on 20 May 2003, are establishing a small Art Gallery in Port Moresby. The "Sir Kawage Mathias  Arts and Crafts Centre will continue to revive his former buisness contacts and furtherbmore to project his name 'Sir Mathias Kawage' and his style of painting in PNG."

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Nimmitabel artist Jackie Gorring is exhibiting new prints in her exhibition The Year of the Dragon at a new Canberra gallery, The Hive www.thehive.turn.to .

  "Two years ago Jackie Gorring was living in Provincial China. Away from her home in Nimmitabel NSW and desperate to continue her art practice in printmaking with a frustrating lack of art materials and resources; Jackie found inventive ways to make do. The Year of the Dragon is an insightful journey into Chinese rural life and the lateral thinking of the artist"

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Entries for the Silk Cut Award for linocut prints will close on 18 June 2004. See www.silkcutlino.com for entry details. The award was introduced in 1995 to encourage Australian printmakers to produce prints by the very simple linocut technique. The 2004 Grand Aquisitive Award gives the recipiant a travel package to Amsterdam or a $5,000 prize.

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Artspace Mackay is holding a weekend of events (beginning 6 February) that focus on the artists' book in Australia. There will be a forum on the Friday to discuss issues in the creation, collection and care of artists' books, as well as four exhibiions: Bruno Letti: Artists books 1982-2003; Tracing the echo; Artists' books and folios by Dianne Logley; Image as text - text as image: A survey of book works by Ken Orchard and Presence: prints and artists by Sandra Rose and Elizabeth Lamont.

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