April 5th – May 1stTrilateral presents the work of 3 printmakers from Northern Ireland.
The exhibition features a diverse range of printmaking techniques from collagraph to screen printed leather hides. The artists are all connected to the Seacourt Print Workshop in Bangor Northern Ireland and this exhibition continues the connection between Seacourt and the Wharepuke Print Studio which began in 2009 when Mark Graver travelled from Wharepuke to run an acrylic resist etching workshop at Seacourt. Previous exhibitions at Wharepuke featured the work of the Seacourt members and Trilateral was instigated at the suggestion of Robert Peters the Seacourt director.Seacourt Print Workshop
Alice Burns
Alice Burns from Seacourt Print Workshop at Art at Wharepuke
Alice will be artist in residence at Wharepuke from April 25th – May 21st
Alice Burns lives and works in Northern Ireland. She graduated BA Hons, Fine and Applied Art, 1st Class, from the University of Ulster, Belfast, NI in 2010 and Post Graduate Diploma, Art in Public, 2012. Her artistic practice currently explores the associative and fragmentary nature of traumatic memory.
A key element of her practice is a dialogic process that mediates recollection, through which she creates objects offering multiple representations of non-verbalised past trauma. This calls for a multidisciplinary approach that uses process and materials selected by the artist as authentic in relation to the narrative.
“Connections” five works on paper
Using Braille as a starting point these five works explore possible connections to unspoken traumatic memory. Each piece is part of a larger narrative concerning trauma and death.
Chris Davis
Chris Davis at Art at Wharepuke Kerikeri NZ
I have had an interest in printmaking since I studied in technical college. I pursued my interest by studying Fine Art Printmaking in University of Ulster Belfast, where I attained a BA Honours in Printmaking.
My work is based upon portraiture and architecture. I chose to work from photographs as first hand reference to create a print. I am influenced by Documentary photography & Japanese printmaking.
I work in various printmaking techniques such as collagraphs, screen prints, woodcuts, linocuts and digital.
Themes in my work include relationships, iconography and architecture.
I continue to work as a professional printmaker taking part in exhibitions nationally and internationally.
Shauna McGowan
Shauna Mc Gowan at Art at Wharepuke- NZ
Shauna McGowan is a screen printer and illustrator based in Ireland. She studied Fashion and Textile design and specializes in screen-printing. Her background enables her to illuminate diverse surfaces with her strong graphic drawing skills. Her signature pieces are unique screen prints on leather.
Shauna’s work explores mythological narratives. Personal grief led to the realization that when we pass, we too become myths. Shauna is fascinated by personal histories and the search for permanence in a transient world. Her work examines life, death and grief through a vibrant use of colour and imagery on tactile surfaces. She considers the preservation of mythology to be of fundamental importance; in this rapidly evolving digital world myths and mystery are being eliminated from our lives.
Wharepuke News Parallel Prints to be presented at Impact 8 International Printmaking Conference in Dundee, Scotland, and taken into collection by V&A Museum, LondonThe concept behind ‘Parallel Prints’ is to present the same exhibition simultaneously in the UK and New Zealand.
Using the uniqueness of the reproducible print allows for the same works to be viewed at the same time on opposite sides of the world. This highlights the democratic nature of printmaking and questions the aura of the unique. Which venue is showing the ‘real’ work? Which the reproduction?Curated and coordinated by Mark Graver in NZ, ‘Parallel Prints’ will feature the work of 12 diverse artists presented in a Solander boxed set with 12 framed prints for hanging.
Each artist will contribute one work on 300 x 300mm paper. ‘Parallel Prints’ will be exhibited in New Zealand at Art at Wharepuke, Kerikeri from July – September 2013 and at a venue to be decided in the UK.
In the UK venue there will be a QR code that links to a video recording of the Wharepuke exhibition allowing the audience to encounter both exhibitions at once. It is also planned to have live web video streaming of the New Zealand exhibition available.Mark Graver has been invited to present the project as an Open Portfolio at the international printmaking conference Impact 8 to be held in Dundee, Scotland at the end of August.
The V&A Museum will be taking a set into its collection and it is proposed to offer the collection to other major institutions around the world.Representing the broad diversity of current printmaking process and practice the artists involved are:
Anne Desmet, Chris Pig, David Ferry, Duncan Bullen, Gill Golding, Mark Graver, Jo Love, Margaret Ashman, Sandy Sykes, Stephen Mumberson, Timo Lehtonen, Weimin He
