News & Events
Impress Christmas Party & Print Sale
The Impress christmas breakup and print sale will be from 2.30pm on Sunday 27 November. Drop in for a bit of afternnon tea Christmas cheer, a superb exhibition of world class fine art prints as well as an opportunity to buy reasonably priced fine art prints by Impress printmakers. All funds raised will go to fit out our new Kedron studio and gallery space early in the New Year so please invite all your friends and family.
Please contact Glenda Orr for rsvps and address details.
Impress members: could you please also note that we encourage you to submit up to 5 different unframed prints in folio sleeves for sale during the exhibition/party. They can be, preferrably, dropped of at the Warilda St Studio (put in the drawer labelled, 'prints for 2011 Christmas Party') up to the Thursday 7pm 24 November or you can bring them along on the day. However, all members submitting work must send a word.doc file to glendaor@bigpond.net.au by 8pm Thursday 24 November with:
- Artist Name
- Title
- Media
- Edition Nos for sale
- Price.
FOLD: an exhibition of selected works by
the graduating printmakers of 2011
Print Club Fundraiser
Would you like to own an artwork by an internationally renowned artist for $5?
| Recent Queensland College of Art artist-in-residence, and internationally acclaimed artist Lynne Allen has generously donated her artwork My Winter Count to the Griffith University Printmakers Club’s annual fundraiser raffle. 1st Prize: My Winter Count by Lynne Allen. 2nd & 3rd Prize: a $50 voucher from Oxlades Art Supplies (First prize can be viewed in person leading up to the prize draw in the window of the Student Representative Council office on level two of the Webb Centre, Queensland College of Art, 226 Grey Street, Southbank, QLD, 4101.) |
My Winter Count by Lynne Allen |
TICKETS ARE ONLY $5 and can be purchased: ABOUT GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY PRINTMAKERS CLUB: ABOUT THE ARTWORK: (see www.lynneallen.com for more information on Allen and her work) |
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Impress Social Picnic & Research Day at the Tram Museum
Want to learn more about the history of our new Kedron studio & gallery space?
Looking for inspiration for the 'Regenerate' exhibition?
Want to catch up with Impress friends or spend a nice lunch out with the family?
Then come along to the Tram Museum and find out more about the history of our Kedron Substation No 8 and the tram network it supported from the Museum Archivist, Glen Dyer.
We won't be able to ride the trams that day but we will be shown the museum and many pictures and artefacts from the substation as well as the tram sheds. Photos are welcome so please bring your camera. Hopefully this will inspire some beautiful prints for the Regenerate Exhibition. (Please note that the deadline for Regenerate EOIs has been extended to 4th December).
Please bring: camera, lunch plate to share and drinks
When: 11am to 2pm Saturday Nov 5
Where: 50 Tramway St Ferny Grove
Enquiries: Glenda Orr glendaor@bigpond.net.au or 0405 083 272
The Round Up
Printmaking, photography, painting, drawing, ceramics and mixed media with works from a number of Impress members and others.
| Kareen Adam Lynn Andrews Georgina Berkman |
Deanne Peta Muir Travis D. Hendrix Karen Kaese |
Kate Kingston Gill Pyke Timotheos Roussos |
Ann Roworth Patrea Ryan Belinda Sinclair |
30th Sep - 5th Oct 10am - 5pm daily
Opening Night 30th Sep 6pm - 9pm with live music by Breakfast Radio Murder
The Art Factory Gallery 84 Merivale Street South Brisbane, 4101
For more information please contact Kareen Adam kareen.adam@gmail.com
or 0439 724 007
codex event 8
codex event 8 is a collaboration between:
- Sarah Bodman, senior research fellow for artists books at the centre for fine print research at the university of west england bristol uk
- Paul Laidler, research associate in digital print at the centre for fine print research at the university of west england bristol uk &
- Tim Mosely, sessional printmaking staff at queensland college of art
the event, based on the notion of concrete spaces returning to jungle spaces, will incorporate papermaking, printmaking in diverse forms and books
Impress members interested in papermaking or stencilling who would like to participate within the open collaboration of codex event 8 are invited to visit the whitebox at QCA or POP gallery while the event is on or contact Tim at tim.mosely@scu.edu.au
Schools Workshop
Recently Impress tutors Carolyn McKenzie Craig and Belinda Sinclair visited the Southern Cross Catholic College in Scarborough to teach a one day workshop in Viscosity, Intalgio and Chine Colle printing techniques. The arts coordinator for the school, Adam McPhee was a wonderful host and the tutors enjoyed the opportunity to share skills and experience with the year ten students. Thank you for having us at your school, we hope to visit again soon.
Well done to all, Impress wishes you all the best in your creative pursuits!
Here is a small sample of the excellent work was achieved on the day.
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Donation Prints - Songs from a Room
Impress has established an online shop with Etsy in order to sell original works on paper & fundraise for the future development of the new studio. With recent floods our funding is hanging in the balance & we need to ensure the longevity of the development so that we can get into the space this year! Response has been good but in order to remain at the top of peoples searches for products on Etsy we need to upload a lot more works.
As such the call remains ongoing & you are free to submit as many works as possible.
We are accepting 21cmx29.7cm (A4) or 12cmx12cm.
Submit works and form into the draw provided at Warilda Street to karenkaese@yahoo.com
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Reflections and Recollections
Featuring paintings and drawings by Impress members Elizabeth Burton and Lynn Andrews, as well as Joan Macnaught and Narelle Mcinnes.
Date: 25th March - 5th April
White Canvas Gallery
26 Church St Fortitude Valley
Gallery Hours: Monday to Friday 11am - 6pm
Saturday & Sunday 10am - 4pm
Opening Night: Friday 25th March 6pm to 9pm
RSVP: Aspire PR or telephone 0421 089 983 or 0407 557 701
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Collected Patterns: The botany of Walter Hill
An exhibition that explores plants cultivated in the Brisbane City Botanic Gardens during Walter Hill's curatorship (1855 - 1881), through patternmaking and original designs for textiles and works on paper.
This project has been supported by a Signature Brisbane Seed Grant and a Janet Holmes à Court and the support of the Visual Arts Board, Australia Council for the Arts.
Exhibition Dates:
Saturday 5th March - Saturday 12th March 2011
Opening Hours:
Wednesday to Friday 12noon to 6.00pm
Saturday 10.00am to 4.00pm
39 Myrtle Street Grange QLD 4051
0403 177 762
info@myrtlestreetstudio.com
www.myrtlestreetstudio.com
Myrtle Street is an independant ARI (Artist Run Initiative). It incorporates a gallery space, specialist book/print shop and artist studio.
Myrtle Street Studio represents student and emerging artists who work primarily in print and paper-based media.
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OPPORTUNITY FOR ARTISTS to exhibit and sell before Easter 2011.
In the Francis Rush Centre Elizabeth Street, Brisbane
AN ART EXHIBITION IN DIVERSE MEDIA,
is being held with an environmental theme of CYCLE OF LIFE: EARTH GIFT
Size limit of 60cm each dimension
Price Limit $600
Entry Fee applies
The Cathedral of St Stephen Art Group (COSSAG) is offering a CASH PRIZE OF $2000
for the work judged by a professional curator to be of the highest quality.
For Enquiries or Expression of Interest Form please phone Beth Belton on 3343 3289 or email to: bethbel@bigpond.com
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Xmas Donation Prints - Songs from a Room
This is a fundraising event for Impress Printmakers Studio
... ALL PROCEEDS TO BENEFIT IMPRESS ...
Calling all members to donate original limited edition prints to raise funds for the
refurb of the new Kedron Substation Studio. This will be an ongoing fundraising activity. Don't wait for the next call out - donate today!
Thankyou to those who have already submitted their work.
Prints will be sold on
• Etsy
• Impress.org.au web site
• A retail outlet OR market stall
THEME: SONGS FROM A ROOM
SIZE: 12CM X12CM
EDITION SIZE: 6 or 10 or 15
PAPER: At least 150gsm
ALL PRINT MEDIUMS accepted
1. No time limit, please just donate as soon as you can
2. Send form & editions to XDP, 73 Warilda Street, Camp Hill Brisbane 4152
Or put them in the draw marked XDP @ Warilda St Studio
3. Send form to karenkaese@yahoo.com
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In The Light
An exhibition of recent drawings by Carolyn Gardiner.
"The exhibition includes works that reflect the light, the life, thoughts and moods that permeate and inhabit my surroundings
Midnight, moonlight, morning light ... where there is darkness, there is light."
Exhibition Dates:
Saturday 30th October - Saturday 6th November 2010
Opening Hours:
Wednesday to Friday 12noon to 6.00pm
Saturday 10.00am to 4.00pm
39 Myrtle Street Grange QLD 4051
0403 177 762
info@myrtlestreetstudio.com
www.myrtlestreetstudio.com
Myrtle Street is an independant ARI (Artist Run Initiative). It incorporates a gallery space, specialist book/print shop and artist studio.
Myrtle Street Studio represents student and emerging artists who work primarily in print and paper-based media.
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ART EXHIBITION B AWARE
global injustice and poverty
In September 2000 at the United Nations, 189 countries signed up for the eight
Millennium Development Goals in an attempt to MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY.
8GG was set up to raise awareness of the issues of poverty and injustice:-
| 8 Oct | B Aware Opening, 6.00pm - 8.00pm St John’s Cathedral, 373 Ann Street, Brisbane
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| 9-21 Oct | B Aware Art Exhibition, 9.30 - 4.30 daily. Free admission |
Artists Include: Richard Bell, Michael Baartz, Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox, Ross Booker, Cernak, Clinton Cross, Fiona Davies, Mimi Dennett, Bridie Gillman, Susan Goddard
Jennifer Herd, Kerry Holland, Gordon Hookey, Meryn Jones, Karen Kaese, Carly Kotynski, Milpera Secondary School, Glenda Orr, Christine & Hamish Pentland, Ryan Presley, Jude Roberts, John Suine, Gwenn Tasker, Toowoomba Prep School, Wake Up Time Group and others.
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PAPER ARTS @ THE WINTER SCHOOL
This is a new venture being coordinated by the owner of FIBRE ARTS AUSTRALIA, Glenys Mann. The event concentrates on the 'paper arts'... book making/binding, printmaking, boxes, collage, encaustic, lithographs and assemblages to name but a few of the techniques that will be offered.
There will be 9 tutors from Australia, Germany, New Zealand and USA to share their talent and technique with like minded people.
Workshops will be held over 6 days with full accommodation available at the Ballarat Grammar School, where the event is being held.
There is the chance to work with one (1) tutor for 5 days, to hear the tutors stories of their own individual art practice with slide lectures.
As well, be visually stimulated by exhibitions of amazing works from all over the world.
For all the information that you need to know about this event, please visit... http://fibrearts.viviti.com/winter-school This site has all the details of the tutors and what they will be teaching for the week. There is an easy download for the enrolment form.
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Impress' New Home!
Some fantastic news that will enable us to really put Brisbane on the map as far as printmaking goes - our application for the Kedron Park Substation No. 8. was successful!
We have already made a significant investment in time and energy, equipment and supplies, now the BCC will do their bit and provide us with some funding that will enable us to make it a really exciting facility.
This couldn’t be better timing as the Print Council of Australia is keen to give us some publicity and this is what we all have been waiting for. So thank you to all who have put in so much hard work and I feel that I am achieving what I set out to do as president – to find a permanent studio space for Impress.
CHEERS TO IMPRESS!!!
Jenny
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IPE 2010 - Call for Work
Entry Deadline: August 2, 2010
Impress will be doing a group submission to save on postage and entry fees. Please send your expression of interest to Evelyne Upton. Places are limited.
Keep in mind that the Impress submission date will be much earlier to give time for the group entry to arrive in the UK in time.
If you have already expressed interest in the IPE 2010 then we hope that you will rise to the challenge we set you below and send us your beautiful prints. If you submitted prints to our first exchange IPE 2009 then you will already know what to expect. This year we hope to be bigger and better with lots more exciting goodies as well as a fine selection of prints from around the world to add to your collection.
The IPE project has the short term aim of attracting by 2012 entries from printmakers in every one of the nations competing in the 2012 London Olympics. The IPE 2009 had submissions from 13 nations. There are currently 205 nations listed for the London Games so we still have a long way to go. You can help by circulating this call for work through your printmaking contacts and networks especially if they are in the more obscure corners of the world.
The IPE 2010 has no assigned theme and is an un-juried print exchange open to all.
There are really only two basic challenges: first, that you follow all the guidelines and, second, that you send us simply the best print you have ever created.
For further information and guidelines visit: ipe2010.greendoor-printmaking.co.uk.
If you want to see what we achieved last year the IPE 2009 mini-site is still online at ipe2009.greendoor-printmaking.co.uk.
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Footprint International Print Competition 2010
Exhibition: May 20 - August 14, 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 20, 4 - 7pm
Entry Deadline: April 2, 2010
Impress will be doing a group submission to save on postage and entry fees. Please send your expression of interest to Evelyne Upton.
Click here to Download a prospectus
About the competition:
The Center for Contemporary Printmaking is delighted to announce the 2nd Biennial Footprint International 2010: a competition and exhibition for fine-art prints that are exactly one foot square. The square format was uncommon in art until the advent of 20th-century abstraction. Rectangular horizontal and vertical shapes for landscape and portraiture, respectively, were, and in fact still are, the norm. For one thing, composing in the square is an artistic challenge. Footprint International 2010Footprint International is held every other year, alternating with CCP's biennial International Miniature Print Competition. presents an opportunity for contemporary printmakers to address the square in 12 inches by 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm).
About the Juror:
The juror for the competition, Anne Coffin, Founder and Director of the International Print Center New York (IPCNY).
Eligibility:
All fine art printmaking mediums, including woodcut, intaglio, lithography, silkscreen, monotype and original digital media. (No drawings, photographs or direct reproductions are eligible.) Art must be hand-pulled and generated on stone, block, or plate using printing process. Computer-generated art is eligible only if it incorporates other methods of hand-pulled printing or handwork. Image size must be exactly 12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm). The image may bleed; margins may not exceed 1.5 inches (3.8 cm) on each side. Outside dimensions of the printing paper may not exceed 15 x 15 inches (38.1 x 38.1 cm). Paper beyond these dimensions of accepted prints will be trimmed to the dimensions required for the exhibition. Only two dimensional works will be accepted.
Prizes and Awards:
Cash prizes and purchase awards will be made by the jurors.
Terms:
All entries accepted to Footprint International 2010 will be exhibited in the Center's gallery and will also be posted in online exhibition via CCP's website. All prints must be for sale. CCP will retain a commision of 50% on all works sold.
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Expressions of Interest: Printmaking Exhibition Exchange Proposal
Julianna Joos, a professional printmaker and a College Art teacher from Montreal, has suggested the possibility of organizing an exhibition exchange between Quebec printmakers and printmakers from Queensland in 2010. Exhibitions would be in both Montreal and Brisbane.
Julianna organized a previous collaboration featuring a printmaking exhibition of Quebec and mostly Queensland artists in Brisbane in August 2006. Participating artists included: Anthea Boesenberg, Ron McBurnie, Wendy McGrath, Helen Mueller and Glen
Stein.
Interested? Please contact Lynn White.
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