Title

place made: Australian Print Workshop.

Collective title

A National Gallery of Australia travelling exhibition.

Venues

National Gallery Of Australia (31 January 2004 – 11 April 2004)

Ivan Dougherty Gallery [2]. (20 May 2005 – 18 June 2005)

Gladstone Regional Art Gallery And Museum (15 July 2005)

Dell Gallery @ QCA (8 September 2005)

Albury Regional Art Centre (4 February 2006 – 26 March 2006)

Geelong Art Gallery. (7 April 2006 – 4 June 2006)

Date

(2004 – 2006)

Summary

Multi-artist travelling exhibition. Located: Australia. Prints

Curator

Roger Butler, Senior Curator, Australian Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Australia.

Documentation

Catalogue

Web address

http://www.australianprints.gov.au/exhibitions/...

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

Place made: Australian Print Workshop

This exhibition celebrates the work produced at the Australian Print Workshop between 1981 to 2002. It is a snapshot of the involvement of Australian artists in the production of prints and their concerns stylistically, politically and technical during these two decades.

Over the last 20 years over a thousand artists have used the facilities of the Australian Print Workshop. Its skilled staff, technical excellence and innovative approach to printmaking have made the studio the favoured workshop for artists as diverse as John Olsen, Noel Counihan, William Robinson, Davida Allan, Rick Amor, Jan Senbergs etc.

Established in north Melbourne in 1981, the workshop has been situated in inner-city Gertrude St., Fitzroy since 198 . Here under the directors John Loane, Neil Emerson and presently Anne Virgo, the workshop has flourished. The workshop is inclusive and artists embracing all styles of work, from realistic portraits to pixilated abstractions, are all welcomed. There is no “house style” at the workshop and the prints produced in etching, lithography and other techniques reflect the ambitions of the artist. Some are already skilled in printmaking techniques while others are guided by the expertise of the workshops senior printers like Martin King.

The workshop has been involved in many special projects, from the Australian Bicentenial Print Project of 1988 (it included the first prints by Mike Parr), to providing hotels such as the Crown Casino with original prints for its rooms, to the etched murals by Judy Waton for the Victorian Museum. The workshop has also been highly active in facilitating the production of prints by Aboriginal Australian artists and the promotion of Australian prints overseas.

In 2002 the National Gallery of Australia acquired the workshops archive 2, a collection of over 3000 prints by artists Australia wide. The acquisition was purchased was made possible through the assistance of the Gordon Darling Australasian Print Fund. [gallery media 2004]