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Eight Victorian Printmakers

Artists

Dean Bowen

My work addresses themes relating to our relationship with the natural environment, everyday life, and plays with aspects of scale reflecting on both the gigantic as well as the miniature. My prints often depicts anthropomorphised, monumental birds of great strength next to small, fragile or even miniscule insects, reminding us of both the endurance and fragility of nature.

Black Canary
Black Canary

Lithograph
48 x 68 cm

Pinnacle
Pinnacle

Lithograph
61 x 24 cm

Red Canary with Ladybird Army
Red Canary with Ladybird Army

Lithograph
48 x 68 cm

Rona Green

Rona Green was born in the port city of Geelong, Australia. Renowned for creating striking pictures of peculiar characters, Green has received many accolades for her printmaking such as the Geelong Print Prize, Swan Hill Print Acquisitive Award and Silk Cut Award Grand Prize. Her work is represented in over fifty public collections including the National Gallery of Australia.

Rona’s pictures explore ideas about our sense of individuality. Specifically, how identity is expressed via the body. The devices she utilises in particular are anthropomorphism and body decoration. Through the fabrication of strange and unusual hybrid creatures she champions idiosyncrasy. Rona currently lives and works in the Dandenong Ranges, Melbourne.

Cheeky Clive
Cheeky Clive

Hand coloured linocut
43 x 33 cm

Pascal
Pascal

Hand coloured linocut
57 x 57 cm

Van Gerven
Van Gerven

Hand coloured linocut
38 x 28 cm

Bill Hay

Bill Hay has been making and exhibiting his artwork ever since completing a Diploma of Fine Art at RMIT in 1976. His work can be found in many major public collections, including The ANG Canberra, The National Gallery of Victoria, The Queensland, New South Wales and South Australian Art Galleries, The State Library of Victoria, The Art Centre – Gold Coast, Parliament House – Canberra, University of Technology - Sydney and The City of Melbourne.

"In this work, I am playing with arabesque shapes, which might be words, thought bubbles or clouds emanating from the invisible people in the empty chairs. For years when travelling, I have made drawings of the various chairs in hotel rooms or B&Bs, and they have slowly made their way into my work."

Culture
Culture

Multi coloured relief print
53 cm diameter

Security
Security

Multi coloured relief print
53 cm diameter

Kyoko Imazu

Kyoko Imazu is a Japanese artist whose practice encompasses a range of mediums such as printmaking, bookbinding, ceramics and installation.

Drawing animals and monsters is one of her earliest and most important memories from her childhood. Her drawings included animals and also strange creatures from Japanese folklores. She was convinced and scared that there were strange creatures lurking behind her or hiding in the dark corners of the house. They were as real as dogs and cats. Drawing inspiration from her memories, her work tells stories that can connect people with their own personal memories and stories.

Beetle Sumo II
Beetle Sumo II

Etching and aquatint
28 x 25 cm

Forest Race
Forest Race

Etching and aquatint
36 x 26 cm

After the Rain
After the Rain

Etching and aquatint
30 x 20.5 cm

Deborah Klein

These works are part of an ongoing exploration of the absence of women from history, in this case, of Chinese women during the Australian Gold rushes. 

A detailed study of the period was undertaken, however the women could equally originate from any place or time, including the present.

Memory 1
Memory 1

Archival pigment print
32 x 22 cm

Memory 12
Memory 12

Archival pigment print
32 x 24 cm

Memory 14
Memory 14

Archival pigment print
32 x 24 cm

John Ryrie

Ryrie 2.jpg
Ryrie 1.jpg

Heather Shimmen

Heather Shimmen is both a painter and printmaker. She has held 19 solo exhibitions and been in over 300 group shows, travelling throughout Australia and internationally, notably 'From Kandinsky to Cornielle, Linoleum in the 21st Century' Cobra Museum, Amsterdam.

"My work is eclectic in nature and often takes the form of the linocut. As an avid collector Iplay with combinations of both the human and animal / insect world discovered in all manner of places, from perhaps the library or sometimes the real creature is discovered under a log in a bush setting."

 

M Navigates
M Navigates

Linocut on organza and paper
112 x 77 cm

Lost II
Lost II

 Linocut on felt
51 cm diameter

Deborah Williams

Williams has exhibited regularly since 1993 and her work has been acquired by many private and public art collections around the world including, London, Belfast, Edinburgh and Glasgow Print Workshops, respectively; National Gallery of Australia; Portland Art Museum, USA; The Chicago Print Collective Workshop, USA; Chiang Mai Contemporary Art Museum, Thailand.

A keen observer of the canine realm and our own relation to it, her artistic perspectives have been further informed by travels to remote locales where she has explored culturally relative attitudes to both pet ownership and abandonment.

Held Its Form
Held Its Form

Soft ground etching and roulette intaglio
29.5 x 19.5 cm

Differences in Degree
Differences in Degree

Etching and roulette intaglio
55 x 55 cm

The Seeing Other
The Seeing Other

Etching and roulette intaglio
51 x 59 cm

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