This exhibition of prints on paper, The Power of Paper, from Australia, Canada, South Africa celebrates 50 years of printmaking through the works of 27 artist/printmakers from these three countries. Open in Cambridge from Feb through to December 2015 the exhibition programme includes workshops with a printmaker from AWP on 14 and 21 March.
Further to this, the two organisations have a project to bring 5 artists from Australia for two weeks study visit from 8 - 22 March 2015. Participating artists in the Antipodes project at maa include:
Caroline Rothwell: Borderlands here
Tom Nicholson The Approach here. Cartoons for Joseph Selleny
Brook Andrew Andrew Frost in conversation re 17th Sydney Biennale 2010 The Beauty of distance here
Interview about curating TABOO at MCA Dec 2012- Feb 2013
PRESS RELEASE
ANTIPODES
a collaboration between the Australian Print Workshop,
Melbourne
and
the University of Cambridge Museums
The Australian Print Workshop is the
leading non-profit centre for fine art printmaking in Australia. Established in
1981, APW has worked with both emerging and internationally-distinguished
artists; it has been a catalyst for the development of Aboriginal printmaking
in Australia; APW work has featured in exhibitions at more than 30 institutions
in Asia, Europe and north America, including recently 'Out of Australia' at the
British Museum in 2011.
The Museum of
Archaeology and Anthropology's print acquisition programme, supported by the
Art Fund's RENEW scheme, has brought some 30 APW prints by Aboriginal artists
to the permanent collection in Cambridge.
Over 2015-16,
Anne Virgo (Artistic Director, APW) and Nicholas Thomas (Director, MAA) will
curate Antipodes, which will bring 5
senior Australian artists to Cambridge for a two week study visit over 8-22 March, 2015. Anne Virgo and Senior
Printer Martin King will be accompanied by the highly respected contemporary
Australian Artists: Brook Andrew, Tom Nicholson and Caroline Rothwell. They
will have the opportunity to study and respond to cultural, historic and
scientific collections relating to the history of exploration and
cross-cultural contacts, particularly in Australia and the Pacific region,
across the University of Cambridge Museums - there are artefacts, specimens and
art works of unique significance in collections including those of the Museum
of Archaeology and Anthropology, the Zoology Museum, the Whipple Museum for the
History of Science, the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, and the Fitzwilliam
Museum. The programme will also include 1-2 days in London collections. Their visit
will coincide with the MAA exhibition, The
Power of Paper: 50 years of printmaking from Australia, Canada and South Africa,
and Cambridge's Science Festival. Two printmaking workshops ‘Printmaking Under
the Southern Sun’ will be held by the Australian Print Workshop artists on
Saturday 14 & 21 March 2015.
Back in
Australia, a second stage of the project will involve residencies at APW, the
production of work, and a series of exhibitions. The intention is to produce a
collaborative folio of prints, a response and homage to the illustrated travel
albums of the eighteenth and nineteenth century.
Nicholas
Thomas
Anne
Virgo
Notes for Editors:
Further information about the
participating artists can be found:
Brook Andrew http://www.brookandrew.com/
Tom Nicholson http://www.tomn.net/
Caroline Rothwell http://www.carolinerothwell.net/
Further information about the
Australian Print Workshop:
Australian Print Workshop (APW) is the leading
non-profit centre for fine art printmaking in Australia.
Based in Melbourne, APW has a strong reputation in
Australia and internationally for collaborating with artists to produce art of
the highest quality and innovation.
Since its establishment in 1981, APW has continued to
work with important contemporary Australian artists who collaborate with highly
skilled APW Printers to produce new works in the print medium.
APW is acclaimed for its groundbreaking work with
Indigenous Artists and is regarded as an important catalyst in the development
of Australian Aboriginal printmaking.
APW’s outreach programs regularly take APW from its
inner-city base, to far-flung and remote destinations around Australia and more
recently in the Pacific Islands, to work with Indigenous artists in their own
communities.
APW’s influences extend across language, cultural and
geographical boundaries. An astonishing international program has showcased APW
in more than 30 institutions throughout Asia, the United Kingdom, Europe and
North America.
APW’s reputation for excellence and innovation in the
print medium is widely acknowledged as evidenced by The National Gallery of
Australia’s major exhibition and book titled “Place Made: Australian Print
Workshop” and internationally by The British Museum’s 2011 landmark exhibition
“Out of Australia” that featured many APW works.
http://www.australianprintworkshop.com/
Printmaking Under the
Southern Sun:
Saturday 14 March 2015 + Saturday 21 March 2015, 2pm-3pm,
All ages
Anne Virgo, Director and Martin King, Printer from
Australian Print Workshop will illuminate on their extensive projects working
with Indigenous Artists in remote communities across Australia: from the
central desert to the tropical north.
Anne and Martin will demonstrate the traditional art
of fine art etching and relief printing and will discuss how these processes
(which have been around for half a millennium) are being employed by artists
today to produce stunning contemporary works on paper.
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