Melbourne based printmaker and painter Bruno Leti has given 8 of his prints to the Mildura Art Gallery. An exhibition of his work was shown at the gallery in 2004.

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To celebrate 25 years of Megalo (Megalo Access Arts Canberr), 25 artists associated with the print workshop, were invited to produce a print. The 25 x 25 portfolio, will be lauunched at a celebratory exhibition opening on Saturday 5 November 2005. The exhibition will be opened by Roger Butler (who produced a poster at Megalo in 1982).  The fully illustrated catalogue was funded by the Gordon Darling Foundation.

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Jim Keays will launch Plastered: the poster art of Australian Popular music, at the Cherry Bar, AC/DC Lane, behind 103 Flinders Lane, Melbourne on 18 November 2006. The book by Murray Walding with Nick Vukovic is a celebration of popular music posters in Australia from the 1950s to today.

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The Harold Wright Scholarship for study in the Print Room at The British Museum, has been awarded to Kirsty Grant, Curator of Australian Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery of Victoria, and Anne McDonald, Curator of Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery of Australia. Kirsty will be at the British Museum in the first half of 2006 and Anne in the second part of the year.

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The Libris Awards are open to artists living and working anywhere in Australia (Australian citizen or resident of Australia). There will be three catagories:
> National Artists' Book Award (aquisitive)
> Regional Artists' Book award (aquisitive).
> Young and Emerging Artists' Book Award (aquisitive).

Roger Butler, Senior Curator, Australian Prints and Drawings and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Australia will judge the 2006 Libris Awards.

Closing date for entries is Friday 16 December 2005. For more information see www.artspacemackay.com.au

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Serial thriller: working in states a forum for printmakers is being organised by the Art Gallery of New South Wales in association with the exhibition Camille Pisarro: the first impressionist (19 November 2005-19 February 2005). Speakers include:
> Terence Maloon 
> Simon Cooper (Head of Printmaking National Art School)
> Rose Vickers (former Senior Lecturer in Printmaking,    College of Fine Arts , UNSW)
> John Loane (master printmaker)
> Tony Ameneiro (artist, printmaker and paper conservator)
> Aida Tomescu (artist).

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Saturday 11 February 2006.

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The Asia Bookroom, the most comprehensive bookshop dealing in books relating to Asia, is opening at their new premises on 28 October 2005.
The new address is Lawry Place, Macquarie, Canberra, ACT, Australia or visit their website at www.asiabookroom.com

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Pressing issues focuses on technical, aesthetic and theoretical issues of printmaking. Masterclasses and discussion by leading Australian printmakers and curators will coincide with significant printmaking and artist-book exhibitions.
The speakers include:
> Roger Butler (Senior Curator, Australian Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Australia)
> Anne Virgo (Director, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne)
> Tim Maguire (Australian printmaker)
> Dianne Fogwell (Director, The Edition + Artist Book Studio of ANU)
> Jorg Schmeisser (Professor Kyoto City University of the Arts, Japan).

The symposium will be at the Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales 12-15 January 2006. For information email: pressingissues@bathurst.nsw.gov.au

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Macquarie University is holding a one day symposium in conjunction with their exhibition Berowra visions: Margaret Preston & beyond, on 22 October 2005. The papers are:
> Berowra: The Catalyst for Change.  Roger Butler, Senior Curator Australian Prints and Drawings National Gallery of Australia.
> Ann Stephen - Preston & Taboo.  Anne Stephen, Curator, Power House Museum.
> Response.  Jennifer Issacs, writer on Aboriginal art.
>  Respecting Margaret Preston's vision. Juno Gemes, photographer and writer.

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Impress Printmakers Studio Brisbane Inc present On a Rool, an exhibition of prints by 33 prominent and emerging Queensland artists celebrating the 100th anniversary of voting rights for women and the 40th anniversary for Indigenous people's right to vote in Queensland. The Arts Factory - 84 Merivale St., Southbank, Brisbane Queensland 7 September 2005.

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Port Jackson Press Newsletter, July-September 2005, reports farewells to three of its staff - Belinda Fox who was workshop manager is to become a full-time artist printmaker; Sophia Szilagyi PJP intaglio printer is to become a mother and Jonas Ropponen, database assistant is travelling overseas to pursure his career as an artist.
David Frazer is the new intaglio printer and he will work with Pia and Trent.

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Chinese printmaker Zheng Shuang will exhibit her prints at the Chinese Cultural Centre, 799 Pacific Highway, Chatswood, Sydney from 4-10 August 2005. Her visit is part of a print exchange exhibition organised by Warringah Printmakers Studio, Australia.

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The 10th Sydney Art on Paper Fair (SAPF) will be held at the Byron Kennedy Hall, Moore Park, Sydney, Australia from 27 July-31 July 2005. First held in 1989 (as the International Master Print Fair), the event it dedication "to internatioanality and not only guides but also sets SAPF apart from any other art fair in the Asia Pacific Region".
This year ther will be 38 exhibitors including participants from from Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, France, Scotland and New York.
Australian print publishers were will be represented by the Australian Art Print Netwok, Basil Hall Editions, Berkeley Editions, Chrysalis Publishing, East Kangaloon Press, Monsoon Publishing, Port Jackson Press, and Ugg Boot Press.
SAPF will hold a full programme of talks, tours and demonstrations. See more at www.sydneyartonpaperfair.com.au

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The winter edition of Imprint has articles on the 10th Sydney Arts on paper fair, the 2nd Australian Artists' Book Forum at artspace Mackay, the National Gallery of Victoria exhibition  Albrecht Durer: Master of the Renaissance, and recent prints by Adam Cullen printed at Cicada Press. There are also articles on printmakers Tyall Plant, Liz Deckers and Clive Barstow and the regular news and ainformation.

Imprint (the journal of the Print Council of Australia), vol. 40, no.2, Winter 2005.

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An exchange exhibition of prints by students of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Chiangmai University, Thailand and the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales will be shown at Chiangmi 8-29 July and Sydney 24-28 October 2005.

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The Newcastle Region Art Gallery is holding a major exhibition of the work of Mike Parr. "Mike Parr: Four decades of practice" is an overview of the prolific practice of this leading Australian artist that will include 30 major works from the past 40 years and a site specific live performance and new sculptural installation." The exhibition can be viewed from 30 September - 20 November 2005. There will be a performance of a new work by Mike Parr on Monday 3 October 2005.

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Ross Woodrow, Head of Art Theory at University of Newcastle will speak on Mike Parr on 25 October 2005. His lecture Mike Parr - a body of work is part of the Newcastle Regional Gallery lecture series. Mike Parr: Four decades of practice is on exhibition at the Gallery from 24 September - 20 November 2005.

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Margaret Preston: Art and Life is a major exhibition of one of Australias most popular and influential painters and printmakers. Born in Adelaide in 1875 Preston studied in Europe before making her home in Sydney in 1920. She was an avid traveller, visiting Japan, China, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands, South East Asia and India. The exhibition opens at the Art Gallery of New South Wales on the 28 July 2005.

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Brook Andrews has produced a series of large scale screenprints of traditional Wiradjuri designs juxtaposed with images from the consumer economy. The screenprints with their strong political/social content were produced in the studio of Master printer Larry Rawling. They will be on display at Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, from 5 July 2005 - 6 August 2005

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Australian artist Brent Harris will be exhibiting pulp-paper works at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute gallery from 15 July - 6 August 2005. Harris was the first Australian artist to be invited onto the STPI's Visiting Artist Programme. A lecture Brent Harris - Colour and Movement will be presented by the artist on !6 July 2005.

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In conjuction with the exhibition Margaret Preston: Art and Life, the Art Gallery of New South Wales is holding a one-day symposium on 6 August 2005. Speakers will be Ron Radford, Deborah Edwards, Rose Peel, Catriona Moore Humphrey McQueen, Hetti Perkins and Mary Eagle. For more information see www.artgallery.nsw.au

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The Ivan Dougherty Gallery, COFA, UNSW, is arranging a symposium The dynamics of printmaking, to coincide with the exhibitions place made: Australian Print Workshop and Open bite: selected prints from Cicada Press which will be on view in May 2005. Speakers will include:
Roger Butler (Senior Curator Australian Prints and Drawings, Australian National Gallery), Anne Virgo (Director, Australian Print Workshop), Michael Kempson (Cicada Press, College of Fine Arts, UNSW), Aida Tomescu (artist), John Wolseley (artist), Susan Norrie (artist), Chris O'Doherty aka Reg Mombassa (artist), Adam Cullen (artist), and artist Euan Macleod.
The Symposium will be held on Friday 20 May 2005. Ring 9385 0726 for details.

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Art and Social Change: Contemporary Art in The Pacific, edited by Caroline Turner, will be published by Pandanus Books in June 2005. The book includes an article by Anne Kirker on printmaking and performance in South East Asia.. For more visit Pandanus Books at www.pandanusbooks.com.au

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Art & Life is a joint initiative of the Australian National Gallery and The National Portrait Gallery, Canberra. The symposium coincides with exhibitions of Margaret Preston, Thea Proctor and Grace Cossington Smith which are all on display in Canberra in April 2005.  The following papers will be presnted:
> Recollections on the Art and Life of Margaret Preston, Thea Proctor and Grace Cossington Smith, Mary Turner (former Director Macquarie Galleries)
> The poetics of place; Sydney as a motif in the works of the three artists, Andrew Sayers (Director, National Portrait Gallery)
> Grace Cossington Smith: Public & private illuminations,  Deborah Hart (Curator, Australian Paintings and Sculpture, NGA)
> Thea Proctor fan paintings 1906-1930, Helen Morgan (Research Fellow, University of Melbourne),
> Under the cover of flowers, Mary Eagle (ANU)
> Margaret Preston aged 83, Roger Butler (Senior Curator, Australian Prints and Drawings, NGA)

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FOCUS ON ARTISTS’ BOOKS II
Artspace Mackay Conference Friday 25 February 2005

2^nd Australian Artists’ Book Forum

If you are interested in artists’ books, the book arts or printmaking you cannot miss this one day conference on the artists’ book as an artform with a range of speakers including leading artists, curators and researchers.

Presenters will include:

-       Alisa Bunbury, Curator – Prints and Drawings, National gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
-       Linda Caroli, writer/researcher, Brisbane
-       Anne Kirker, Curator – International Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
-       Alex Selenitsch, artist and Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
-       Stephen Spurrier, artist, Ugg boot Press and Lecturer, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba
-       Ross Woodrow, Lecturer in Art Theory, University of Newcastle, Newcastle

Topics to be covered will include The Artists’ Book as Contemporary Art; the Artist’s Book in Art History and Fluxus, Futures and other dimensions to artist’s books.

The day’s program will also include Artist's Talks by:

-       Martin King, artist, Australian Printmakers Workshop, Melbourne
-       Dianne Fogwell, artists, Editions Artists Book Studio, Australian National University School of Art
-       Katherine Nix, artist, Canberra
-       Wim De Voss, artist, Brisbane
-       Adele Outteridge, artist, Brisbane

The conference venue will include a space for artists to show their own books to other delegates.

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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]