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Dust and Clouds: Dots and Pixels

Ian Brown & Paul Jones

Dust and Clouds: Dots and Pixels

Art at Wharepuke Exhibition

March 8th – April 12th
Gallery open 7 days – 9.00am – 5.00pm
Ian Brown Paul Jones Dust and Clouds: Dots and Pixels

Paul Jones and Ian Brown both share an interest in the same source material; images of elemental natural forces at work. Each has a fascination with the almost intangible nature of this phenomena where ‘dust and clouds’ of poetic beauty describe events of cataclysmic proportion.

Paul Jones Brixton Hill SW2 Super Cell Series Ink, compressed charcoal on drafting film

For Paul Jones this is a touchstone connecting him to an interior world of the imagination, while in perhaps a more detached manner, Ian Brown is looking into the way we experience the act of looking. Dots and pixels act as the mediation between the real world, the photograph and its expression in print.

Ian Brown Tromba Marina I, Screenprint/Etching

Both artists come together in this show of drawings and prints as Paul collaborates with Ian to convert and reconfigure some of his drawings into print, through the solar plate etching process.

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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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The Goldfields Printmakers – ‘Borders and Crossings’

The Goldfield Printmakers at Art at Wharepuke Gallery
The Goldfield Printmakers

 The Goldfields Printmakers

An exciting new group of artists living in the Goldfields region of Victoria, Australia, who predominantly work in field of printmaking.

James Pasakos, a Printmaking lecturer at the Federation University of Australia, Ballarat, was a co-founder of the group “This group was born from an idea; a ‘Eureka’moment that I had whilst participating in the IMPACT 7 international printmaking conference in Melbourne in 2011. My concept was to bring together printmakers from the historic and significant Goldfields region and to provide a portal through which dialogue and diversity can evolve in a supportive and enriching environment”.

The Goldfields Printmakers exhibition was first displayed at the Art Gallery of Ballarat, May-July 2013 and in August 2013 travelled to  Dundee, Scotland, for IMPACT 8. Having crossed and re-crossed borders

Art at Wharepuke is pleased to now present the show to a New Zealand audience.

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Paul Coldwell

 

Paul Coldwell
Paul Coldwell. Iceberg

Printed Matter – March 20th – April 13th

This exhibition features the work of Paul Coldwell presents printed works selected from a number recent projects.
The postcards and screenprints are from a recent exhibition at the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge in which Coldwell reflected on Scott’s ill-fated last journey to the South Pole. The postcards image polar landscapes and in addition a number were posted from various ports of call of the Terra Nova, thereby retracing the journey home. The set of six screenprints focus on the sponsorship of the expedition and the manner in which the enterprise engaged with popular support and interest.
Kafka’s doll is collaboration with the poet Anthony Rudolf and the bookwork is present alongside the digital images that reflect and interpret the text.
Finally, With the Melting of the snows is bookwork made in response to Martin Bell’s final BBC Broadcast as war Correspondent in Bosnia. The bookwork re imagines the siege of Sarajevo through a series of lithographs.

Paul Coldwell

Paul Coldwell is Professor of Fine Art at the University of the Arts London, based at Chelsea College of Art. He has taught in many colleges both in UK and abroad including as visiting Professor at the University of Northampton (2006-09), Visiting Professor at the Chinese University Hong Kong and Guest Artist at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2010 and Montclair University 2012.

As an artist, his practice includes prints, book works, sculptures and installations, focusing on themes of journey, absence and loss, He has exhibited widely, his work included in numerous public collections, including Tate, V&A, British Museum, the Arts Council of England and Musée d’art et d’histoire, Geneva.  He was one of the invited artists to represent UK at the Ljubljana Print Biennial in 2005 & 1997, selected for numerous open print exhibitions including the International Print Triennial, Cracow (2000, 2003, 2006 and 2009) and the Northern Print Biennial 2009 & 2011. His recent exhibitions include A Layered Practice Graphic Work  1993-2012 a retrospective staged by University of Kent which then travelled to University of Greenwich and Re-Imagining Scott: Objects & Journeys at the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge 2013

He has curated a number of exhibitions including Digital Responses, (V&A 2001),Morandi’s Legacy; Influences on British Art ( Estorick Collection London 2006) and The Artists Folio, (Cartwright Hall 2014).

He has published writings on a number of artists including Michael Craig-Martin, Giorgio Morandi, Christiane Baumgartner and Paula Rego, has contributed to many publications including Print Quarterly, Art in Print and Printmaking Today and was invited as key note speaker for Impact 7 International Printmaking Conference in Australia in 2011.  His current book Printmaking; A Contemporary Perspective was published by Black Dog Publishing in 2010.

Paul Coldwell at Wharepuke

www.paulcoldwell.org

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