Title

Three printmakers: On a roll.

Author

Australian Prints.

Source

[Not applicable]

Details

14/02/2002.

Publication date

14 February 2002

Type

News

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

Full text

 

Ellie Bunt, Machteld Hali and Helen Nugent, are exhibiting original prints at the Berry Courthouse, cnr Victoria, Albany Sts, 22–28 February, 2002 with an official opening Saturday 4–6 pm.

The printmakers share productive and successful careers and a vital approach to creating evocative images. They are experienced in the tradition of printmaking yet diverse in their interpretation and response to the theme. Many collectors, national as well as international seek their work.

Bunt became a printmaker in Townsville during 1979/81 under the guidance of Ron McBurnie, now of Lyrebird Press. She works with etchings, woodcuts, linocuts and monotypes on her own press. She enjoys the adventure of the unknown, the risks and surprises that the printmaking medium involves. New ideas, possibilities and even mistakes that emerge when working on a print are all important in obtaining brave and innovative results. This exhibition includes some of her monotypes of the South Coast and woodcuts of old, collapsing Australian sheds.

Hali’s fascination for the human form allows her to use this theme, ‘on a roll’ to experiment with imagery of bodies in movement. She delights in the constantly seductive rhythms, vulnerability, integrity yet comic potential of the body.

Her passion for viscosity printed collagraphs allows her to explore the beauty of things right under her nose, the bits and bobs, a carpet runner, object of intimate personal meaning. It allows also a vigorous approach to colour, design and an exploration of accidental effects. The expression of the relationship with all her objects is one of love, whimsy and warmth.

Nugent is a visual artist and teacher. Her images reflect an enduring interest in drawing the figure from memory and imagination. She often uses distortion, idealisation or even caricature as an expressive device. Travel to exotic places has yielded a rich range of visual ideas for Nugent to incorporate into images exploring human foibles, strengths and eccentricities with which we can identify!

Nugent's practice includes a range of media such as painting and ceramics. Rediscovery of printmaking has opened a new field of exploration. It is an appropriate vehicle to exploit her talent for illustration.

Come along, enjoy the work and grab this opportunity to begin or expand your own collection of original prints.

Last Updated

27 Oct 2023