Compact Prints 2020
Compact Prints was first held in 2002, originally conceived and curated by Rebekah Butler. The exhibition welcomed international artists in 2004 and has continued as a biennial exhibition ever since. The exhibition is greatly anticipated by printmaking organisations and previous artist participants. Compact Prints 2020 is a celebration of contemporary print practices, embracing traditional and technological methods. The project provides artists with a forum to exchange artwork and ideas. It also provides an opportunity to exhibit in a contemporary art space while supporting Umbrella through its fundraising auction. Artist each submit an edition of 3 identical prints – 1 for the exhibition, 1 for the auction and 1 for an artwork exchange. See the full 2002 – 2018 exhibition archive here.
EXHIBITION
This year Umbrella has received over 100 entries, which has been a great achievement considering COVID-19-related postage delays and reduced accessibility options for printmaking worldwide.
AUCTION
Compact prints are available for purchase through a silent auction running throughout the exhibition period. Registration and bidding can be done from the opening launch and we encourage visitors to revisit throughout the exhibition. All of the 2020 prints can be viewed online below however bids can only be made in person or on the phone. For phone bids, please be prepared and have the artwork number on hand. Bidding will close at 1pm Sunday 15 November. Winning bidders will be notified by the following week. To make a bid, register your name and details with a gallery staff member or volunteer.
EXCHANGE
From 15 November 2020, Umbrella randomly selects pairings for the artwork exchanges. Each artist participant will receive a copy of a letter detailing which artist received their exchange print.
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1 Sue Bright
Melon Sticks, 2020
Linoleum print – hand-coloured with pencil, 12 x 12cm
My aim was to do a bold organic linocut print design. The result reminds me on melon balls on a cocktail stick. After finding a beautiful watermelon pencil the print was hand coloured.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $30
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2 Maureen Alsop
I Love as Well in Tenderness, 2020
Digital collage, 12 x 12cm
The print is from a series of digital collages based on a lyrical novella.
Current bid as at 3.30pm 13 November 2020: $20
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3 Erin Ricardo
Pentas, 2020
Linocut Print on Paper, 12 x 12cm
A study of colour and pattern in the garden.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $40
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4 Laura Castell
One more face, 2020
Woodcut, 12 x 12cm
The figure and the face are constants in my work. I search in them for what may be inside a person. Sometimes it is obvious, many more it is not.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $100
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5 Nick Williams
RGBGlitch, 2020
Rubber stamp print, 12 x 12cm
RGBGlitch is the exploration of a typically digital phenomenon – the separation and offset of red, green and blue (or in this case black) colour channels on a screen. The theme, being a glitch or malfunction translates similarly to print (i.e. print plates being out of registration, ink being uneven etc). It could also be argued that those that have a red/green colour blindness are experiencing a biological ‘glitch’ and for those that are not colour blind, the offset red/green colouring may give a blurry anaglyph effect.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $20
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6 Amanda Galea
Fragments of Flora, 2020
Drypoint etching and gouache, 12 x 12cm
This print was created at Lynn Scott-Cumming’s Drypoint Etching workshop. I was given a test piece of acetate to study on and ended up creating something I was happy with so I decided to print with it. The acetate had a little cut out on the side which you can see has showed up on print. An accident I’m quite happy with! I then hand painted on top with gouache.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $20
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7 Karen Hurford
At Home, Over Here, 2020
Linoleum print, 12 x 12cm
In my day job, I am a high-school teacher. For people in the education sector, 2020 heralded a new era of working-from-home, zoom meetings and on-line learning. I’m exhausted!
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $20
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8 Jennifer Rogers
Mistletoe Bird, 2020
Linoleum print, watercolour, 12 x 12cm
The Mistletoe Bird represents just one of the millions of tiny birds lost in the devastation of the 2019 – 2020 Australian bushfires. This tiny bird, by it’s habit of excreting Mistletoe seeds on to branches where it grows parasitically, provides food for a range of insects, birds and mammals. The birds’ loss also means this important food plant will take many years to regenerate.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $85
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9 Vince Bray
Lily in a pond, 2020
Perspex Print, 12 x 12cm
One lonely lily.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $30
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10 Emily Clare
Dancing Blooms, 2020
Linoleum print, 12 x 12cm
My world is observant of the natural world, but its forms have been arranged and I call this place the FEMIVERSE. Delicate floral skeletons and abstract forms dominate the landscape. Three dimensional passages lead deeper into the unknown revealing the natural cycle of life and ultimately – growth.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $20
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11 Nicole Troccoli
Eva’s wonder, 2020
Linoleum print, ink and acrylic paint on Stonehenge paper, 12 x 12cm
There is no one who I love to draw more than my daughter. In Eva’s wonder, Eva is observing how light is hitting her hand in wonder.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $30
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12 Penelope Le Petit
COVID Gallery 2020, 2020
Collage on lithograph, 12 x 12cm
COVID Gallery 2020 MASK UP
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $50
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13 Sylvia Hewitt
It’s A Re-Leaf, 2020
Linoleum print, 12 x 12cm
When you think you have missed that all important deadline, ‘It’s A Re-Leaf’ to get a print out on time. As simple as it is, it’s still a relief.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $25
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14 Richard Gillespie
tropical dreaming, 2020
Vector drawing digitally printed on hahnemühle torchon 285gsm paper, 12 x 12cm
As a child I went to sleep each night with three wishes. One wish was to live in the tropics. Now, especially in the time of COVID19, I wonder how many southerners are wishing they could magically fly to the tropics?
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $40
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15 Emily Butler
Memories of Brian, 2020
Reduction linoleum print, 12 x 12cm
Emily Butler is a Toowoomba based artist who works primarily in the fields of contemporary printmaking, engaging with mediums that rely heavily on technique, process and repetition. Her work ‘Memories of Brian’ is representative of a childhood memory in which her grandfather Brian would bring his mother a sprig of wattle for her birthday, even after her death.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $60
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16 Lyn Nicholls
Covid Hare, 2020
Aluminium plate deep etched and printed as a relief plate, 12 x 12cm
I have been experimenting with deep etching on aluminium plates, etching in saline sulphate and then printing as relief plates. So far they seem to be turning out OK! This print is a play on words as with the lockdown in Victoria all hairdressers are closed!
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $40
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17 Ardel Prout
Pixie on Heat, 2020
Drypoint etching on foil, chine colle and watercolour, 12 x 12cm
My print ‘Pixie on Heat’ is a drypoint etching on foil, chine colle and watercolour. The image is a drawing of mine. Pixie has long gone but is still remembered.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $60
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18 Michelle McGuinn
Magnetic Island Waterholes, 2020
Print release on watercolour paper, 12 x 12cm
Magnetic Island during the summer wet season means beautiful waterholes to cool off in. There is nothing more relaxing and oh so exhilarating!
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $20
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19 Therese Wilkins
Scrubtit, 2020
Tetra pak drypoint /handcoloured, 12 x 12cm
The Scrubtit is a shy little bird that lives in the rainforest and often among bracken and thorn hiding. It is an endangered species of King Island.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $20
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20 Michael Pope
Lost things; Found things, 2020
Digital print, 12 x 12cm
How strange to find yourself so young and naughty. Another twenty years ahead of you to not grow up. Oh…and a dinosaur.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $40
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21 Donna Foley
Dry point about a swan song, 2020
Drypoint on aquatint, 12 x 12cm
Robert Graves (1955) proposed that one of the two main functions of mythology was to justify an existing social system and account for traditional rites and customs. Relics of Art History provide knowledge of the attitudes of the past, through acceptance and even elevation, for example, persistent themes of violence and power are evident from Antiquity in The Rape of Persephone. Similarly, the Greek myth of Leda and the Swan has been reinterpreted throughout the centuries from 3rd C AD mosaics, to Classical Roman marble sculpture, to Renaissance wood engravings and countless paintings through to the Modern period to the point of creating conventional narratives which continue today in art and film.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $40
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22 Mardi Saker
Butterflies on the wing, 2020
Three colour reduction vinyl relief print with watercolour, coloured foil and stitching, 12 x 12cm
This year has been an incredibly good one for all sorts of butterflies in my garden. These Cairns Birdwing butterflies float and flit around looking for their feed plant Aristolochia Tagala. The male is smaller than the female and here I have tried to capture its spectacular iridescent green colouring which complements the furry yellow and red body of the female.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $30
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23 Marie-Louise Jones
Carassius auratus, 2019
Linoleum print hand-coloured, 12 x 12cm
To find beauty in the ubiquitous.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $30
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24 Julie Stark
2020 Vision, 2020
Print release, vinyl print and watercolour, 12 x 12cm
… dreaming of William Morris’ Arts & Crafts Movement in our age of tattoo design, and love in the time of COVID… Michael Leunig’s saying flags a way through for me. Combining print release with vinyl printing adds colour and fine detail here.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $60
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25 Susan Head
Cyclamens, 2020
Linoleum print, 12 x 12cm
When creating my artwork, I take realistic forms and convert them into stylised shapes and patterns with an emphasis on line and colour. I continuously see patterns in nature and in objects around me, which I am able to interpret and respond to through the lino block printing process.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $30
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26 Matthias Kern
Light at the end of …, 2020
Linoleum print and mixed media, 12 x 12cm
Kern’s various artistic expressions include watercolour, acrylic, pastel and printmaking. He enjoys working in the older printmaking techniques as well as more modern techniques of intaglio, dry point, aquatint, mezzotint, line etching, silk screen, monotype and woodcut. Kern looks to the natural environments for inspiration.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $40
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27 Sabine Carter
unprecedented’, 2020
Stencil and acrylic paint, 12 x 12cm
Fire fascinates me as it is beautiful and mesmerising when it’s contained, and destructive when it’s out of control. Fires all over the world are getting more extreme as our climate slowly changes. The media calls it ‘unprecedented’ while in fact these devastating fires already seem to be part of the ‘new normal’.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $40
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28 Lynnette Griffiths
A Study for Chili Crab, 2020
Hand coloured screen print, 12 x 12cm
As part of my creative practice I always draw, often transferring my ideas to different mediums before I make the final product. This process gives me time to think and resolve ideas. This mud crab just ended up on my plate.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $40
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29 Deborah Miller
Sunset Lockdown, 2020
Mixed media hand-coloured linoleum print, 12 x 12cm
I witnessed the Puffin, ‘Is it a Priest or a Clown?’ (fratercula or ‘little friar’). Since COVID 19, the puffin symbolises both. Its orange beak and orange webbed feet make the puffin somewhat clown like! While we are in lockdown the puffins have a decreased number of visitors, so I have put them in Coronavirus lockdown at home as well, until we can all visit them again!
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $90
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30 Eirini Fokas
Mould, 2019
Screen print, 12 x 12cm
Mould is a series of screen printed art work that looks at the unassuming fungal life that grows in the crevices of my fathers ceiling. Much of my COVID pandemic isolation was spent observing the survival of this non human life form.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $30
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31 Lynn Scott-Cumming
Boat, 2020
Linoleum print, 12 x 12cm
Boats have a mystical quality and are a symbol with potentially endless permutations of form.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $50
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32 Susan Swaddling
Race Week Magnetic Island, 2020
Linoleum print, watercolour, 12 x 12cm
Magnetic Island host a week of yacht racing every August/September. Sometimes the wind is light, sometimes not. I have chosen to represent the racing yachts in strong, bracing winds.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $50
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33 Julie Milton
….out with……, 2020
Hand-coloured linoleum print, 12 x 12cm
The image is a play on the idiom….’went out with button up boots’…implying old fashioned. The picture says one thing and the words another.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $30
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34 Ann Bartholomeusz
Flower Sun, 2019
Linoleum print and collage, 12 x 12cm
Hours and hours of staring at the sky – barley squash and sandwiches – imagining what lies beyond the flower sun.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $30
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35 Maurice Hayler
Bessandson, 2020
Enhanced digital photograph printed on Hahnemuhle paper, 12 x 12cm
A faded memory of a treasured childhood.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $30
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36 Lillianne Daigle
Fall colors, 2020
Digital art, 12 x 12cm
Capturing and sharing with viewers the feeling of the moment, the vibrations or the memories of them is what I derive challenge and pleasure from. My interests are now focused on digital art. In my digital prints I start from “scratch”, or use portions of my classic prints or photographs that I have taken and then modify, combine and manipulate them on the computer.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $40
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37 Robin Hundt
August, 2020
Relief Print plus Japanese black ink, 12 x 12cm
Chillis growing always look spectacular – red candles glowing against green foliage. I picked them in August.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $40
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38 Margaret Wallen
Find Friends. LOCKDOWN 3260, 2020
My iPhone Find Friends App enables me to ‘see’ those I cannot visit during Covid 19 Lockdown – Victoria 3260.”
iPhoneography, 12 x 12cm
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $20
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39 Jennifer Treloar
The Undying Woman, 2020
Digital print from multi-layered artwork, 12 x 12cm
I hope to provoke thought around the complexity of female imagery and voice. The same image can provoke wildly different ideas and feelings in different people.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $50
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40 Cynthia Rodday
The Gardens, 2020
Digital artwork, 12 x 12cm
I’ve drawn this image from a day trip to Kensington Gardens in London multiple ways: graphite, pastels, and watercolor. This digital version illustrates how memories become fuzzy and even stylized upon reflection. The memory never truly shows how the day unfolded; only showing the parts we remember the best.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $30
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41 Karen Landt-Isley
Curiosity of Covid 19, 2020
Giclee print, 12 x 12cm
The artwork reflects the conflicting ideas regarding the Covid 19 virus.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $50
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42 Anneke Silver
Staying home, 2020
Digital, 12 x 12cm
Staying home’ – related to the COVID experience. If you look carefully, you see the face of the artist on the left.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $90
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43 Sapphire Csik
Unrequited, 2020
Digital print, 12 x 12cm
My work is inspired by the lore of nature.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $20
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44 Andrew Sewell
Susie Q, 2020
Colour woodblock print, 12 x 12cm
I am a printmaker whose focus is on creating Pop Art inspired music portraits, celebrating our modern deities.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $20
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45 Cherylin Scalia
Ring O’ Roses’, 2020
Two plate linoleum print, 12 x 12cm
The origins of ‘Nursery Rhymes’ have always fascinated me (in this case ‘Ring O’Ring of Roses’). Were they made up to reflect the social conditions of the times (politics or plague) or just fun nonsensical rhymes? I wonder what rhymes (if any) might be remembered from this particular period in time.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $20
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46 Teresa Ferro
Blue Print, 2020
Photopolymer Relief, 12 x 12cm
The print represents an analogue photo with the negative shown as a blue print.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $20
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47 Margaret Robertson
From This View, 2020
Hand-coloured relief print, 12 x 12cm
My work often relates to what I see in my own backyard and surroundings. The white cockatoo in this image is just one of the many birds that visit.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $30
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48 Lin Schwarzkopf
Swallow, 2020
Contact transfer and linocut, 12 x 12cm
Open sky and knowledge both provide freedom, allowing us to take flight.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $20
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49 Claire Grant
Gorgonian Fan(tasy), 2020
Hand-tinted Cyanotype Print on Japanese Paper, 12 x 12cm
My work uses alternative photographic processes and mixed media to represent the forms and patterns of nature. This print is adapted from an underwater photograph taken whilst scuba-diving, printed in cyanotype and embellished with watercolour and gouache hand-tinting to emphasise the vibrancy of the reef. The gorgonian fan produces striking abstract patterns against a background of deep blue water, evoking memories of my time spent exploring the underwater landscape.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $50
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50 Madison Lee
Ashley in Blue, 2019
Linoleum print, 12 x 12cm
Portrait of a high school friend carved in lino and hand printed using a wooden spoon, my first with safe wash oil based ink. I carved this piece in my free time between lectures and university work last year.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $40
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51 Larissa MacFarlane
Covid Blues, 2020
Linoleum print, 12 x 12cm
During tough times, I have often returned to my childhood passion of stamp collecting to find solace. Covid in Melbourne/Naarm has been tough but has lent itself well to the slow art of linocuts and postage stamps. I am a Naarm based artist working across printmaking, street art and community art, investigating ideas of belonging, place, healing and change.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $60
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52 Jacinta Lisec
Encroaching, 2019
Linoleum print on Stonehenge paper, 12 x 12cm
Competing for space, these linear shapes create incongruity by dividing themselves to encroach each other.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $20
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53 Kristen Lawrence
Snowy River, 2020
Solar plate print, 12 x 12cm
Thick blankets of snow sometimes look as if they are an icy blue colour, this is a result of light being scattered around the grains of snow. I photographed this river as the snow was falling over the rocks and trees. The blue ink used is reminiscent of this beautiful blue hue.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $50
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54 Jill O’Sullivan
Rule of Trees: Da Vinci, 2020
Drypoint on copper, 12 x 12cm
Da Vinci noted that ‘all the branches of a tree at every stage of its height when put together are equal in thickness to the trunk’. This work references this theory which is studied by scientists today and pays homage to the amazing mind of Da Vinci.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $25
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55 Beata Slifierz
Memory vessel, 2020
Drypoint, 12 x 12cm
Through my work I engage with forms and patterns deeply etched in personal memory and cultural heritage.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $20.
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56 Sandi Hook
From the foot of Cootharinga, 2020
Drypoint on copper, 12 x 12cm
From quick observational drawings of Castle Hill, this print represents an immediate response to the majestic, iconic symbol of Townsville.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $60
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57 Marion Gaemers
Skeleton, 2020
Mixed media print, 12 x 12cm
I am a weaver and I wanted to include the woven object with the work; the print of my leaf becomes its shadow.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $60
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58 Sandra Williams
Coastal Gums, 2019
Aluminium plate etching with colour roll and gouache, 12 x 12cm
‘Coastal Gums’ was inspired by the white gum trees found around the lagoons of many south coast beaches. I have long been fascinated by the shapes of the trunks and branches emphasized by the dark background settings and the reflections made in the water.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $100
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59 Wendy Francis
Pandanus Foreshore, 2020
Mixed Media, 12 x 12cm
The pleasure of printmaking does not fade, it just evolves. The choice of Pandanus is a reflection of where we live, a place of beauty and joy.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $50
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60 Rhonda Stevens
Hope, 2020
Monotype chine colle, 12 x 12cm
Stevens is fascinated with the symbology of the Ginkgo Biloba tree and has formed her work using a leaf from a friend’s tree to demonstrate a wish for Hope and Peace for humanity. She refers to how a ginkgo tree survived the explosion of the Hiroshima atomic bomb in Japan; which stands at a location near the centre of the blast in an area now known as the Park of Peace. The tree is now called ‘bearer of hope’.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $70
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61 Karen Austin
Paper Plants – Peperomia sp. #1, 2020
Intaglio collagraph, 12 x 12cm
This work presents an exploration of the possibilities of the creative collagraph. It also draws on the long traditions of botanical illustration whereby images were constructed in the pursuit of scientific inquiry and the role of art was to make science visible. In addition to science, images also serve art as a way to construct meaning and communicate concepts. Rather than an accurate portrayal of the characteristics of a particular specimen. This work is an interpretative image in which art prevails over the aims of science.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $20
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62 Catherine Rose
Building Creativity, 2020
Linoleum print and chine colle, 12 x 12cm
Previously a Miles and District Art Group member, I am now creating with the Maryborough Print Makers. My linoleum print incorporates chine colle on mulberry paper depicting the creative fun of a quiet girl, my youngest grandchild. Supporting children’s inventions and creativity helps grow confident artists and adults.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $30
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63 Irene Rae
Resting, 2020
Drypoint, 12 x 12cm
I have always preferred using the human figure in my artwork. This drypoint came out of a session with a professional ‘life’ model. In between poses, the model relaxed, often just sitting.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $40
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64 Carol Seeger
What’s Black and White and Red All Over, 2020
Collagraph and chine colle, 12 x 12cm
Regional and rural readers are mourning the demise of their local newspapers. It has left them unable to connect with local happenings such as births, deaths and marriages and what about the crosswords!! Internet connections are either unavailable, unaffordable or too complicated for many.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $50
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65 Peter Burgess
Redact, 2020
Digital image on hahnehmuhle photorag, 308gsm, 12 x 12cm
In an age of disinformation, the act of redacting is turned on itself.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $45
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66 Sue Poggioli
Homage to John Brack (Bird Woman), 2020
Hand-coloured linoleum print, bleed print, 12 x 12cm
This image is part of a series paying homage to iconic works of art. People gather in art museums to view and interact with art and each other or to be alone with others. Art does something to us and we do something to art. My collections of people gather in art museums of my making in front of pictures of my choosing. ‘Bird Woman’ is a lesser known work of Brack’s but one I found intriguing. I have referenced quite a few of his works in the past but this one is quite a strange and arresting image. It’s story is unknown to me.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $70
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67 Alan Junior
Heroes in white, 2020
Linoleum print on dutch aquatint paper, 12 x 12cm
Old pictographs telling stories and myths have informed the direction of this work. Our heroes are shown in white (Doctors, nurses, scientists) in a battle against COVID-19 which is defeated by the eventual vaccine.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $30
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68 Sam Rundle
Changing of the guard, 2020
Photo release transfer on paper, 12 x 12cm
2020, a new world perspective.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $40
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69 Carly Sheil
Reflecting on 2020, 2020
Relief print from 3D printed MSLA resin plate on arches paper with caligo ink, 12 x 12cm
This piece attempts to reflect on 2020 using light-hearted symbolism and a clean, approachable style to juxtapose with the actual chaos that has been the year itself. There probably was enough toilet paper all along, a lot of change is happening (butterfly), the year has overstayed its welcome (gesture), but there is light in the darkness (stars), and it is an achievement that we have made it through most of it (laurels).
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $40
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70 Bronte Perry
Do you ever have those days where you feel like an old shoe?, 2020
Drypoint hand-coloured with tea on Hahnemuhle 150gsm, 12 x 12cm
This piece is about taking a rest when you feel worn out, scuffed, and tired. It is also a short love letter to all the pairs of sneakers that have carried me through life.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $20
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71 Gerald Soworka
The nexus of amplexus – chasing Shangri-la, 2020
Hand tinted linoleum print – watercolour, black rubber ink on buff Stonehenge paper, 12 x 12cm
Sometimes you have to kiss a lot of toads to find prints charming. Inspired by the ancient mystical tradition of the Bhutanese Vajrakilaya tradition, the cane toad hunter return to NQ to find his Shangri-la. Toadily scored.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $60
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72 Hilary Warren
Kelp, 2020
Polymer photogravure, 12 x 12cm
Kelp is found washed up on beaches following severe storms, allowing us to examine the intricate architecture of these giant algae. This intaglio print is translated from a photograph taken by me at Broulee beach on the south coast of NSW.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $30
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73 Sandy Fisher
solitude, 2020
Etching with watercolour, 12 x 12cm
I am a seeker of quiet places and solitude.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $40
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74 Belinda Curry
Hidden depths, 2020
Relief print, water washable oil based inks on 270 gsm dutch etching paper, 12 x 12cm
Looking beyond the everyday, moments hidden beneath layers accumulated over time, there are many forgotten glimpses of what once was. The mechanics workshop floor in a country town, grease, scrape marks and splotches of colour. Whilst waiting, I realised there is so much more to something or someone then what we first see.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $20
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75 Brigitte Zimmermann
Escape, 2020
Escape is a soft ground etching on a copperplate, hand coloured, 12 x 12cm
Escape represents a big dream I have. I wish to fly to Switzerland and visit my mother, but it is impossible to get there at the moment. In my imagination, I could fly around with a balloon, so high that nobody sees me in the air.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $30
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76 Maxine Smith
Trixie + her dog, 2020
Print release, 12 x 12cm
Trixie and her dog Toby. I thought this would make a great print release.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $20
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77 Ashleigh Peters
Rising, 2020
Block print on watercolour paper, 12 x 12cm
I began exploring insects. I find the structure of their exoskeleton bodies fascinating. This scarab is one of several studies of various beetles, however, this one is slightly different as it is based on the mythological depiction of the Egyptian scarab which is a symbol of Khepri: the rising sun.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $50
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78 Brigitta Summers
Ski lift, 2020
Etching and aquatint, 12 x 12cm
This print was inspired by Peter Doig’s etchings of people in the snow. It was drawn from a family photograph.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $50
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79 Brian Pool
2F, 2020
Linoleum print, 12 x 12cm
I enjoy the challenge of creating artworks using linocut, producing images in black and white forces me to break the subject down to its most basic form. I especially like the curves and straight lines of old machinery.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020 : $30
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80 Stephen Coutts
“Nightfish”, 2020
Linoleum print, 12 x 12cm
This image was developed from a detail of a previous drawing, ‘Salmon Farm of the Subconscious’. Both versions are offered in praise of those images which arrive without a great deal of forethought or conscious planning.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $40
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81 Lorella Masci
Succulent ll, 2020
Linoleum print, 12 x 12cm
Further exploration of my garden revealed to me the beauty of the leaves in this hanging succulent plant.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $30
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82 Martina Ah Sam
Deep Barra Dreams, 2020
Linocut print on paper, 12 x 12cm
Catching the elusive Barra. The continuous concentric circle patterns indicate indigenous waterholes.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $30
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83 Danish Quapoor
unknown omniscient, 2019
Acetate drypoint etching on fabriano rosapina, 12 x 12cm
Crystals, dark matter and tendrils are consistent iconography in my work. This particular work alludes to unknown gems hidden at the bottom of the ocean.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $20
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84 Terence Barrett
Nature Morte (E. pleurocarpa)’, 2020
Mezzotint print, 12 x 12cm
“Nature Morte (E. pleurocarpa)” This sepia image was pulled from a copper plate which had been roughed allover using an 85 l.p.i. rocker – the image was then created using ball burnishes. The subject was a dried branch from an Australian mallee tree (Eucalyptus pleurocarpa). Over the years I have produced a number of small mezzotints featuring Australian plants and wild flowers.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $50
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85 Isabella Shatte
Tree Fern, 2020
Drypoint with water colour additions, 12 x 12cm
I have recorded in drypoint the linear grace of the beautiful tree fern.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $20
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86 Annarie Hildebrand
Afternoon Tea, 2020
Aquatint etching on copper plate, hahnemuhle paper, 12 x 12cm
Afternoon tea reminds me of quiet afternoons, enjoying a fresh, fortifying cup of tea before the busy evening preparations start.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $70
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87 Margot Laver
So This is My World, 2019
Zinc etching, 12 x 12cm
While visiting Lady Elliot Island off the east coast of Queensland, I noticed the crested terns nesting. The little chicks struggle out of their eggs and get their first view of the world they are born into. These chicks are nurtured by their parents who protect them from the seagulls swooping in for their share of chicken.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $30
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88 Barbara Pierce
Enclosure, 2020
Digital print on archival paper, 12 x 12cm
An enclosure is an area surrounded by a fence or a wall. Borders, boundaries, or defined places can be described as landscape features as well as having connections to psychosocial language. Border and movement restrictions, social distancing, isolation and confinement to a place have featured in the current pandemic.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $20
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89 Ann Vardanega
Fragments, 2019
Digital print, 12 x 12cm
The interconnectedness found in natural elements continues to amaze me. It is at times the smallest of fragments, the texture and patternation created which provides the most pleasure. These elements may be easily overlooked or lost in the larger vista; however, once found become their own unique micro landscape.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $60
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90 Kate O’Hara
View³, 2020
Digital print release on wood, 12 x 12cm
The view from my window.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $30
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91 Zelma Schulten
Territorial, 2020
Etching, 12 x 12cm
Masked Plovers are extremely protective of their territory. These birds are very dedicated parents and also pair for life.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $60
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92 Rhi Johnson
After the Storm, 2020
Hand-stitched reduction linoleum print, 12 x 12cm
Rhi Johnson is interested in making print works that are partially representative of existing spaces, but are modified by memory and individual interpretation. The images are derived from personal experiences of déjà vu, whereby the environments or subjects depicted have triggered a subconscious response – a sense of knowing that is simultaneously withheld from conscious recognition. As such, the subjects and locations shown, and the experiences attached to these, constitute a disruption to conscious, everyday narrative… a momentary subversion of immediate sensory comprehension.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $50
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93 Malcolm Tattersall
Undara Ridge, 2020
Digital image, laserprint, 12 x 12cm
Most of my photography is strictly documentational but occasionally I like to draw out the meaning of an image by transforming its colours and textures. I love the arid landscape of Western Queensland but I know many people find it harsh, even intimidating. In reply to such people, I have moved my snapshot of a dry rocky ridge near the Undara Lava Tubes towards a warmer emotional tone, partly by evoking early photography and Victorian-period engraved illustrations.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $50
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94 Sheree Kinlyside
Blue Whale in the Town, 2020
Reduction Linoleum print, 12 x 12cm
Blue whale is a litmus indicator of future needs for the animals on our planet. She gathers survivor information by travelling various world climates.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $40
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95 Victoria Paterson
Untitled, 2020
Drypoint with chine colle, 12 x 12cm
Victoria Paterson’s work explores themes of perception, philosophy and embodied experience with a focus on materiality and process. She often utilises an abstract aesthetic, drawing on symbolic imagery to test boundaries of representation.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $30
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96 Joshua Percival
Gardener in peril, 2020
Multi plate copper etching print, oil based inks on hahnemuhle, 12 x 12cm
Tropical wilderness is under threat. Our biggest bird is too. The Cassowary plants rainforest as it travels; without it rainforest will change drastically.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $40
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97 Anne Lord
Grace and Child, 2020
Hand-coloured lithograph, 12 x 12cm
Grace is about a feeling when seeing this lady and child walk along The Strand. I don’t know them but their relationship looks strong.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $80
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98 Janet Reinhardt
In the Garden, 2020
Drypoint etching, 12 x 12cm
This print is inspired by the creation myth of Adam and Eve. It captures the moment of the fall and our subsequent loss of innocence. Having gained the knowledge of good and evil, expulsion from Eden is not far away.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $20
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99 Julie Mia Holmes
Updraft, 2020
Two plate hardground etching, 12 x 12cm
Ghosts and trauma from the 2020 summer bushfires still linger. There is solace to be found in the beauty and fragility of burnt debris that continue to wash up on the tideline of our beaches seven months on. A memorial for all things lost.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $30
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100 Saskia Morris
Contactless Payment Only, 2020
Laser etched linoleum print, 12 x 12cm
Cash has become synonymous with contamination for retailers and shoppers around the world and its use is steadily declining. However, unlike all contactless currencies, paying with cash discloses no data. ‘Contactless payment only’ is a print grown out of an evolving body of work that considers what we forfeit when the agency behind our daily money shifts from the state to megacorporations like PayPal and MasterCard.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $30
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101 Karen Kaese
Shift, 2019
Linoleum pint, 12 x 12cm
This print conveys a subjective landscape borne out of shifting patterns of perception.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $30
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102 Christopher Clifton
He opened the door, and no-one was there, 2020
Etching, 12 x 12cm
The act of opening doors to others has been missing from our lives for far too long.
Current bid as at 3:30pm 13 November 2020: $50