Title

Pen to Pixel: 200 years of Australian Prints & Drawings.

Venues

Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia. (15 March 2003 – 9 June 2003)

Date

(2003)

Summary

Multi-artist exhibition. Located: Australia (VIC). Included prints

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

"A celebration of Australian prints and drawings in the National Gallery of Victoria, Pen to Pixel presents a broad-ranging survey of works from the collection.

From the Sydney Bird Painter’s precisely rendered Boobook owl: a drawing with a scientific purpose made at the end of the eighteenth century, to David Harley’s exuberantly coloured and large-scale digital print: Hay wire 2001 utilising recent print technology, and everything in between. Artists represented include Eugene von Guerard, Louis Buvelot, Arthur Streeton, Joy Hester, Arthur Boyd, Margaret Preston, John Brack, Fred Williams, Bea Maddock, Juan Davila and Elizabeth Gower.

The launch of a new handbook of the collection of Australian prints and drawings will coincide with the exhibition accompanied by a program of floortalks from the curator and contemporary artists." [blurb]