Title

New Australian printmaking.

Venues

National Gallery Of Victoria [2]. (11 May 2022 – 2022)

Date

(2022)

Summary

Multi-artist exhibition. Located: Australia (VIC). Prints.

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

Featuring ground-breaking original prints by APW Artist Fellowship recipients Megan Cope, Shaun Gladwell, Tim Maguire and Patricia Piccinini, the NGV exhibition New Australian Printmaking launches the body of work created as a result of the APW Artist Fellowship Program. 

Initiated and curated by APW Director Anne Virgo OAM, the APW Artist Fellowship Program is the most significant of its kind in Australia. Awarded between 2017 and 2021, the Fellowship enabled leading contemporary artists Megan Cope, Shaun Gladwell, Tim Maguire, and Patricia Piccinini the opportunity to expand their practice into new territory and to collaborate with APW’s Printers Martin King and Simon White to research, develop and create a new body of work in the print medium.

Tony Ellwood AM, Director of the NGV, said: ‘The NGV is proud to be a commissioning partner of the Australian Print Workshop Artist Fellowship program. This initiative has revealed the surprising and unexpected ways that printmaking can expand the practice of contemporary artists working today, as well as the consummate skill of APW’s printers. This exhibition is a wonderful and timely celebration of prints and the important national role the Australian Print Workshop plays in supporting artists and Australian printmaking.’

New Australian Printmaking showcases all the works produced during the APW Artist Fellowship program. The exhibition also provides audiences with a fascinating insight into the collaborative process of making original prints through supplementary material including printing plates, proofs and filmed documentary footage of the artists and printers in the APW printmaking studios. [APW publicity].