ican do spring

this weekend I took my prints to the exhibition and demonstration. I spent the 2 days completing dyed samples of silk and cotton pieces. I used the cold water wax to do the resists and just kept adding colours getting a bit stronger each time. I love to do this. I also added some bright dyes to some old cotton doilies. the will be left for quite sometime now before il rinse them off. Gradually I'll finish off all the half started pieces and then see what I'll do with them, probably sell them to other artists and creative types at ican. I didn't sell any prints this time but many people looked at the framed works and looked through the folders.
judy

The Firing Squad Meets The Press

This exhibition came down yesterday. We had a group show with 2 printmakers and 3 potters. I exhibited 2 print installations, a framed print and a set of collage prints as well as some boxes.












title: '2 Heads are Better Than 1'
It is quite large and takes up almost the full height of the wall.
artist statement:

I love the harbour. I love the sea. I love the water. To create this work I spent time drawing on the harbour, mostly from a ferry. From out there to here; the heads are the nexus of international movement in Sydney. The world enters and returns.

I first looked closely at a ship being loaded with coal in Sydney harbour. Taking that image and an aerial view of the heads, I thought about access to the whole world of ships and ideas, above the water, under the water and maps that guide and record.

I have used film negative sleeves to contain the images; all the same shape but different images imprinted on each one. I reworked the original image and gave it a new life, altering its size and relationship to the other ships and boats. I’ve over-printed the images to suggest the layers of life on the harbour.

The other installation (below) is called 'fish ' n' ships'

Boats ‘n’ ships ‘n’ fish ‘n’ water. I love the harbour. I love the sea. I love the water.

I have usually made prints that are flat, on paper and go into frames. In this work I explored my life as a sculptor who makes prints. My life has changed and now I feel the need to make sculptures with most of my works. I spent time drawing on the harbour mostly from the water, on a ferry.

People in the buildings are connected to the rest of the world by the water in the harbour. The boats and ships on the harbour are reflected in their buildings. We like to be on and look at the harbour. Many people like to catch and eat fish from the harbour. The water and the harbour have many layers of meaning and purpose as have these prints.

Recycled vegetable container/boxes hold the prints like windows into their worlds.

Title: ‘Souler Sailor 4’

I spent some thoughtful hours drawing on the harbour; mostly while on a ferry full of tourists.

Water links the 2 areas of Mosman and Manly. The harbour is the central influence. I struggled with an idea I had been agonising over for weeks. The sail boat works with nature to create transport for pleasure. Maps on paper are more interesting to me even though they seem to be less used these days. Digital images don’t give the same feeling as a map. With these ideas I tried to create work that involved the lovely glass float I have. I made lots of prints (about 50) and intended to cut them all up, but discarded that idea as some interesting compositions were created. This work did not fully reveal itself to me until the very last moment. Eventually, I changed my mind. The prints struggled to stay whole and end up going into a frame. Not what I had planned. The work has its own soul.

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boxes, books and sculpture

I've been busy entering competitions lately. I've entered the meroogal women's heritage exhibition, the small sculpture prize and the artists' books show for southern cross uni at Alstonville at Julie Barratt's gallery. I also entered the drawing prize at Grafton regional gallery with one of my small bus stop books and a digital picture frame. The books are quite small but have hundreds of line drawings in them of my travels. I keep filling them up.



I finished off a relief work I had started many years ago. Eventually I painted it and put proper D rings on it.
this is how it was for years and now I've made the background white.






This is a detail before I painted it white. It has had a few names over the years and now it's called 'found on the floor'
these are the things I picked up on the kitchen floor over a short time and kept in a container.











It looks different all painted white in the background

I've done the first prints with the new press, only small prints yet. I had some works that needed to be finished so I'm trying to get them out of the way before getting into the bigger ones. It's so much easier than the presses I've had to deal with before.

press set up

today I put the blankets on the press and got it ready to start printing tomorrow. I'll start by finishing off some larger size prints I could not do till now.








I've also been scanning some pen drawings. I call these my bus stop books.

new etching press

My new etching press has arrived.
I'm keen to get going with it and pull my first prints. I will get a sheet of polycarbonate to cover the metal bed first. It's all shiny and new and ready to get going, hopefully this weekend.






Bus stop books
I have also been glueing some spines of little drawing books ready to make the leather covers. This one is finished. I call them my 'bus stop books'.

new etching press

My new etching press comes today. At last I will have my own one. I can hardly wait. I will be able to print whole sheets of paper without breaking my back. I will make some great monotypes. I will be so very happy. My friends will come to help me get it inside the studio. unreal Ay?!!!

artist books

Adelaide fringe festival 2008
I took some artist books to IMPRINTS Booksellers in Adelaide in February and March. Some books will be going with their new owner to New York USA.
This one is called The 1980's. I cut up all of my student works and put them into out of date diaries. This is the first of those. I added my images to a diary of australian women artists.



I also made some books that go into boxes. I had to eat the chocolates before adding the prints to the cover of the box lid and base.
There is a monotype on the very fin paper that covers the box.
The folded up book inside is on cotton paper about 280gsm and printed with water based monotype paint. The book has 2 leather ties.