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images in print
22 July – 14 August 2009
a survey of creative work and technical experiments in print media by School of Art and Design researchers
Mehmet Adil, Brogan Bunt, Gregor Cullen, Agnieszka Golda, Richard Hook, Garry Jones, Derek Kreckler, Friederike Krishnabhakdi-Vasilakis, Jo Law, Jacky Redgate, Jo Stirling, Jelle van den Berg, Diana Wood Conroy
Ditto: Images in Print is an initiative of the Faculty’s Centre for Printed Image which was formed to coordinate research activities in photographic, digital and autographic print processes. The centre fosters excellence and innovation in this exciting and constantly changing field of creative production.
The exhibition demonstrates some of the relationships of printed image to individual research interests as well as the multiplicity of techniques and print media now available.
Visual artists and designers have traditionally produced graphics in a variety of media as a core studio activity or to supplement their principal studio output. Print media encompass autographic, photographic and digital technologies, with increasing experimentation taking place with hybrid and 3-D forms. Fine art print graphics also has a long relationship with the printing and textiles industries, one that needs to be continually monitored and updated for artistic opportunities.
The School of Art and Design has built a momentum of practice in print graphics, photography and graphic design and a level of expertise and state of the art digital facilities that will support high quality research. Facilities include large-format archival quality digital printers and a high-resolution scanner within an integrated digital studio. A large digital printer producing output to paper, cloth and acetate - for use in photo-screen printing - has been in operation for some time. A small, dedicated studio is available for basic etching and relief printing and the textiles studio allows for large format screen printing and digital printing on fabric lengths.
In addition to its involvement in print production, the School has an impressive record of fostering, exhibiting and acquiring indigenous Australian prints. These are well represented in the University Collection. The University also has, through the generosity of Melbourne collector Doug Kagi, one of the best collections of post-war British and American prints in the country.
The Centre’s first project is to make the subtle and complex technique of photogravure, first developed in the 1830’s, available again to photographers and graphic artists. This process, which has fallen into disuse in Australia, produces very high quality photographic prints using traditional copper plate aquatint techniques.
The project is possible because of the Centre’s partnership with master printer Thomas Goulder of Duck Print Fine Art Limited Editions in Port Kembla www.duckprintfineart.com.au. Tom’s studio offers a professional custom printing service for artists in most autographic mediums: etching, lithography, relief, screen-printing, typesetting, book-binding and solander box construction and is one of only a handful of custom printing workshops in the country.
Trial proofs (test prints) from the initial experiments in photogravure are being exhibited together with the wide-ranging work of Faculty staff.
Richard Hook, Coordinator, CPI
The exhibition runs from 22 July – 14 August in the FCA Gallery, Faculty of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong and will be officially opened on Wednesday 29 July at 12.30pm. Light refreshments will be served and all are welcome to attend.
Admission is free to all galleries at the Faculty of Creative Arts.
Gallery Opening Hours are 9am–5pm, Monday to Friday
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Location:
FCA Gallery
Faculty of Creative Arts
Room 113, Building 25
University of Wollongong
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School of Art and Design, Faculty of Creative Arts
Phone: 02 4221 5853 or 02 4221 3996
Email: aandd_info@uow.edu.au
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