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Irena Keckes – Woodcuts

Irena Keckes – Woodcuts

Opening Reception Sunday Dec 14th 5.00pm
Exhibition
15th Dec – 4th Jan
open 7 days 9.00am – 5.00pm

Irena Keckes

Irena Keckes is an artist and arts educator, currently based in Auckland, New Zealand. She was born in Croatia, where she gained BA in Art Education and Printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb (2000). Irena earned Masters of Fine Arts in Printmaking from Tokyo University of the Arts (2005). Currently, she is completing PhD with Creative Practice at Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland (2011- present).

As part of her doctoral research project integrating theory and practice, Irena has created large-scale woodcut prints, and researched the links among ecologically informed Buddhism, and non-toxic and expanded forms of print.

Her artwork has been exhibited internationally at eighteen independent, and numerous group exhibitions; these included the Tallinn Triennial of Drawing (2012), Kyoto Art Festival (2012, 2014) and International Mokuhanga Exhibition at Tokyo University of the Arts (2014).

She has been an artist in residence in Japan (2000) and Korea (2005), and an active member of several art associations including Croatian Association of Artists (since 2001) and Print Council of Aotearoa New Zealand (since 2014).

Irena presented an academic poster and portfolio at the Impact 8 International Printmaking Conference in Dundee (2013) and an academic paper at the 2nd International Mokuhanga Conference in Tokyo (2014).

As a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, she has been teaching Printmaking and Drawing academic projects to undergraduate students, since 2011.

 

 

ARTIST STATEMENT | IRENA KECKES

My art has been informed by a strong desire to work in the media of print in particular within the field of contemporary, ecologically responsive printmaking. Over the past twelve years I have lived and worked in diverse scholastic, artistic and intellectual environments. Moving through the myriad of cultural worlds made an impact on my practice.
My recent research has been exploring if and how some of central Buddhist notions, such as interconnectedness or causality, may inform ecologically mindful printmaking. The interest in this topic and approach to print practice grew from my previous training in traditional Japanese water-based woodcut that originally involves non-toxic methodologies. Taking mokuhanga (Japanese woodcut) as a starting point, merging apparently disparate theories, philosophies, methodologies and processes, one of the main sequels of my work has been to represent one example of expanded printmaking.

In some instances I have extended my practice by detaching print off the walls and moving into the space, and in others I exhibited carved plates and wooden shavings as sculptural objects alongside the prints. I have shifted the main focus away from controlling the final outlook of the print to the processes of making itself. Expanding the scale of my plates also created a platform for a more intense exploration of the phenomenological aspects of my work, reconciling intellectual and physical actions of printmaking processes. Through an idea that making is thinking, and thinking is making, my work also has been investigating art/craft as an indivisible concept, as evident in three of my independent presentations in 2012, 2013 and 2014.

Woodcut print installation the Unlimited Resonance of Repetition (2012), consisted of ten three meters long woodcut prints suspended from the ceiling. These large prints were created in Japanese water-based woodblock printmaking method, and explored the notion of repetition embodied in the process or carving as well as in printing. Some of the wooden matrices were installed on the floor of the gallery in juxtaposition with prints. The Presence of Absence installation (2013) consisted of carved wooden plates and wooden shaves arranged on the walls and floors of the gallery. By creating a “carpet” of wooden chips the works in this show unveiled the idea of impermanence: the wooden shaves were once the plates. In my doctoral exhibition, Mindful Repetitions (2014), I presented 14.5 meters long print that surrounded the space of the gallery. As part of this installation, the 240x480cm large print was installed on the floor of the gallery.

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Struan Hamilton – Prints

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Struan Hamilton – Prints

October 1st – November 2nd 2014

Gallery open 7 days – 9.00am – 5.00 pm
190 Kerikeri Road

Scottish-born Struan Hamilton is the 2D Team Leader for Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, having taken up this position in July 2009. His responsibilities here include the teaching of Fine Art Printmaking to 1st years through to PHD candidates, as well as the day to day running of the department.

He has previously been manager of Belfast Print Workshop, arriving there after stints at Edinburgh and Dundee Print Workshops, and the world-famous Atelier Contrepoint, (formerly Atelier 17), in Paris, where he was assisted the director, Hector Saunier, and leading artist, Sun Sun Yip.

Struan’s work can be found in public and private collections from the House of Lords to hospital trusts, and football clubs to the national arts council as well as local government councils. He also boasts a healthy record of international exhibition.

Struan’s exhibition at Wharepuke features a selection of large scale drypoints on canvas and viscosity etchings.

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Struan Hamilton
My work draws inspiration from the organic within the man-made environment of the modern city. This duality of existence in shapes and forms creates a dynamic dialogue within my work, which generates a multitude of visual experience for the viewer.

I work predominantly in intaglio, specifically viscosity etching, as I feel the ability to push the surface of an etching plate, and be pushed back in turn by it, generates the dynamism required for the aesthetic experience I aim to produce.
Lebbeus Suite V
Drypoint on canvas 2013
1030 x 860mm
Maelstrom
Viscosity Etching 2013
580 x 700mm
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Leftovers International Print Exchange 2014

Leftovers
Leftovers

Art at Wharepuke is pleased to continue its support for the Leftovers project initiated by Wingtip Press, Idaho, USA.  This is the 3rd year we have received the show as it tours around the world.

Gallery Open 7 Days
9.00am – 5.00pm
190 Kerikeri Road
Kerikeri

The History of Leftovers

After cleaning out the flat files and finding dozens of little scraps of printmaking papers jamming up the file drawers, the folks at Wingtip Press in Boise, Idaho realized they probably weren’t alone with the dilemma of what to do with all thosetoo-precious-to-toss leftover paper scraps.

An invitation went out to fellow printmakers to participate in a print exchange to use all those lovely little leftover scraps to create a small edition of prints. Artists submit an edition of 14 prints of any size up to and NO LARGER than 5″ x 7″ and receive a dozen prints in return. One print is held for exhibitions and one print is included in a silent auction to raise funds for the Hunger Relief Task Force.

Now in our fifth year, the exchange include printmakers from Australia to Arizona, Canada to Colorado, Nevada to New Zealand, Korea to Kansas, Wales to Washington, and places in between!

Bon Appetit!

Wingtip Press
info@wingtippress.com

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Mark Graver in Bangor Northern Ireland

 Combinations

Seacourt Print Workshop

The centre for contemporary printmaking
Unit 20 Dunlop Industrial Estate, 8 Balloo Drive,
Bangor (Down) BT19 7QY
Northern Ireland
Exhibition Opening Wed 9th July 7.00 – 9.00pm
Exhibition runs Wednesday 9th July – Friday August 1st 2014.

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Curated by Mark Graver (Wharepuke Print Studio) Combinations brings together a group of artists from New Zealand and the UK with a shared interest in hybrid and intermedial approaches to printmaking and the relationship between established print media and evolving technologies.
When it comes to techniques and processes printmaking has a history of adaptability and versatility – it is one of its fundamental strengths – and printmakers have always adapted their craft in tandem with evolutions in technology, often finding artistic applications where they were not necessarily intended.
Combining traditional methods with developments in digital technology and print in a wider context the artists represented here acknowledge both the historical traditions and the technological advancements. Their work is not appropriation of technology for technology’s sake but an awareness of the conceptual connections and combinations between the two and includes 3D, video, photopolymer etching and digital prints.
Participating artists:
Duncan Bullen – Course Leader Fine Art Printmaking University of Brighton
Veronique Chance – Course Leader in the MA Fine Art and MA Printmaking at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
Nicholas Devison -Independent artist printmaker
Johanna Love – Pathway Leader for MA Printmaking at Camberwell College of Arts
Mark Graver – Director Wharepuke Print Studio, co-Director with Tania Booth, Art at Wharepuke, Kerikeri, New Zealand
Stephen Mumberson – Reader in Fine art Printmaking Middlesex University

Duncan, Veronique, Nicholas, Mark and Stephen will be present at the opening and will give a floor talk about the exhibition.

Combinations is an introduction to a larger project Re:Print/Re:Present. Co-curated by Mark Graver and Veronique Chance, RE:Print is a sustainable, fluid, evolving entity that can develop, expand (or contract) into numerous international exhibitions, exchanges and collaborative research processes and projects with non-hierarchical entry and exit points.

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Mark Graver Umbra Sumus

MARK GRAVER – UMBRA SUMUS

MAY 30 – JULY 25
gallery open 7 days 9.00 am – 5.00 pm
Taken from a quote by Horace, ‘Pulvis et umbra sumus’ (we are but dust and shadow) Umbra Sumus is an ongoing project containing photopolymer and acrylic resist etchings, video and sound works.

The work is partly a response to the death, in January 2011, of the artist’s father and also to the wider human condition.

The use of shadows alludes to the movement of light, the passing of time and, ultimately, to mortality. Still images are used for the etchings while the video works allow for an actual temporal experience using the same or similar source material.

The use of photographs, video and found sound relates also to place, and again reinforces the idea of time. Time fixed, or recorded, in a specific place, reproduced then re-presented through video. The shadow source photographs are gathered from different places and countries to emphasise the universal correspondence of shared existence.

Based at Wharepuke in Kerikeri, Mark Graver is an award winning artist and author of ‘Non-Toxic Printmaking’ (London, A&C Black, 2011) and founder of the The Wharepuke Print Studio and, with partner Tania Booth, Art at Wharepuke Gallery.

His work is held in many international collections including the V&A Museum, London, The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Whangarei Art Museum, Whangarei, NZ, Jinling Museum of Art, China, Guandong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China, Penang State Art Gallery, Malaysia ,National Museum Of Fine Art, Taiwan, Douro Museum of Printmaking, Portugal, Durban University – Arts for Humanity Collection, Literature and Arts Department, Harbin, China, CONARTE – Non Toxic Printmaking Museum, Monterrey, Mexico, Painting and Sculpture Museums Association, Istanbul Turkey and the James Wallace Trust, NZ.

Images from the Umbra Sumus series can be seen here
UMBRA SUMUS
Port Jackson Press
Melbourne
June 3rd – June 28th

If you’re in Melbourne during June a selection of works from the Umbra Sumus series can be seen at Port Jackson Press at 84 Smith Street, Collingwood

Oaks III 2014
200 x 200 mm

Mark Graver – Artist Statements 2014

Memory, Place and Time
The traces of time etched into the environment, be it natural or urban, external or internal; the surfaces making up a city, or the forms of nature observed, remembered and abstracted, produced, re-produced and re-presented.

Current practice involves working with printmaking, digital video and sound with interest concentrated at the point where these approaches meet and cross – the editonable act/event/encounter of pulling a print or screening a film, the re-presenting of this act/event/encounter and its relationship with time, place and memory.

Works are related technically, conceptually and through content, often with linked images being manipulated and developed from a single source, and through on-going fluid series of works that can exist individually or as installations that examine the relationships between the temporal and the static

Combinations
July 9th – August 1st
Centre for Contemporary Printmaking, Seacourt Print Workshop, Bangor, Northern Ireland

Opening Preview Wed July 9th 7.00 – 9.00 pm

Curated by Mark Graver Combinations brings together a group of artists from New Zealand and the UK with a shared interest in hybrid and intermedial approaches to printmaking and the relationship between established print media and evolving technologies.

Combinations is intended as an introduction to a larger project Re:Print/Re:Present, a sustainable, fluid, evolving entity that can develop, expand (or contract) into numerous international exhibitions, exchanges and collaborative research processes and projects with non-hierarchical entry and exit points.

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3rd International Open Submission Printmaking Show

Dec 5th 2013 – Jan 19th 2014

The 3rd Art at Wharepuke Open Submission Printmaking Show attracted entries from artists from 12 different countries around the world. The exhibition includes prints from 35 artists in a range of printmaking techniques with each work limited to within an A4 paper size.
An international jury of artist printmakers and gallerists will select one artist to receive a prize of a solo show at Art at Wharepuke in 2014.
This years judges are:
Friedhard Kiekeben (USA) – http://www.friedhardkiekeben.com/
James Pasakos (Australia)  – http://www.jamespasakos.com/
Jo Giddens (NZ) – winner 2nd Wharepuke International Open Print Show
Laura Widmer (Canada) – http://laurawidmer.ca/
Ian Rastrick (UK) Director Ian Rastrick Fine Art – http://www.ianrastrick.com/index.html

Irena Keckes(NZ/Croatia) Black Print  Japanese woodblock

Geoff Tune(NZ) Port Vendres – Thinking Of Matisse 13  Digital Print

Russell Frost (UK) Free Roaming   Letter press

Anita S. Hunt(USA)  Deluge II   Etching and aquatint
A limited edition  full colour catalogue of the show will be available from the gallery and the winner will be announced in the New Year.  Selected images
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Compact Prints

International Touring Print Show

May 7 – May 28

Curated by Umbrella Studio, Townsville, Australia.

Compact Prints-International touring show
Compact Prints-International touring show

2012 marked the 10th anniversary of Compact Prints presented by Umbrella Studio contemporary arts. This unique international biennial print exchange and touring exhibition has grown in reputation and size since its conception in 2002. Continue reading Compact Prints →

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Chaap – Printmaking from India

14th Oct – 11 Nov

CHHAAP: Foundation for Printmaking Trust

Chhaap - Printmaking from India at Art at Wharepuke-Kerikeri-NZ
Chhaap – Printmaking from India at Art at Wharepuke-Kerikeri-NZ

Chhaap is a colloquial Indian name for “Printmaking” or “Printing”.

CHHAAP – Foundation for Printmaking Trust was established on a cooperative basis in 1999 with a mission to create and promote wider appreciation of original prints and print making techniques. Continue reading Chaap – Printmaking from India →