Belgrave St. Ives, Summer Exhibition – ‘Birds Of A Feather’ – 2014
Bronglais Hospital, Aberystwyth – Aberystwyth Printmakers – November 2014
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Belgrave St. Ives, Summer Exhibition – ‘Birds Of A Feather’ – 2014
Bronglais Hospital, Aberystwyth – Aberystwyth Printmakers – November 2014
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A framed set of the print portfolio Collaborations : Aberystwyth Paper Press Print will be on show at Oriel Nyw / Gas Gallery in Aberystwyth from Friday 11th October to 12th November.
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This is an exciting new gallery for mid-Wales, for more information click here and to see the gallery go to their website, Oriel Nwy / Gas Gallery.
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Hong Kong Open Printshop promotes the art of printmaking by curating exchange exhibitions, conducting educational programmes and showcasing Hong Kong printmaking at international symposiums. As an international exchange programme, Hong Kong Graphic Art Fiesta connects national, regional and international art communities. The programme began in 2007 with the opening of the first Hong Kong Graphic Art Fiesta. The feature events that year were “Crossing Boundaries – an International Print Exchange Exhibition” and “Hot Off the Press”, an exhibition of print art by students from local universities and tertiary institutes. The Hong Kong Graphic Art Fiesta has become a major international graphic art exhibition, Crossing Boundaries featured the work of 100 artists from 12 print workshops. Prints from mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal, UK and the USA illustrated the diversity of contemporary printmaking practice, highlighting both thematic and cultural issues as well as more pragmatic matters such as media, technique and format. By 2010, the Hong Kong Graphic Art Fiesta had developed into a major annual international printmaking exchange exhibition with three main areas of focus – work by established printmakers, work by university students and work by secondary students – rotating every three years. The festival is now two months long and the number of workshops and participating artists has multiplied enormously.
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This year the portfolio Collaborations : Aberystwyth Paper Press Print, compiling 30 artists associated with Paul Croft Master Lithographer and the Aberystwyth Print Workshop was to go on show at this impressive event. The prints were executed in a variety of media – lithography, etching and aquatint, mezzotint, woodcut, linocut and monoprint – have since been acquired for the Archive of the Hong Kong Arts Centre. Artists included are Wuon Gean Ho, Edwina Ellis, Paul Croft, Ruth Jen Evans, and Marcelle Hanselar.
They have four main objectives:
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The success of these exciting and ambitious projects very much reflects the energy and dynamism that is currently driving the economic and cultural renaissance in this corner of South East Asia. Between Hong Kong and Guanlan, across the frontier in Shenzhen, support for printmaking appears to be positive and rising. It will be fascinating to see how subsequent projects will impact upon the development of printmaking in this region and worldwide. (1)
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This lithograph, Woodland Bathing, made in 2012 in the Aberystwyth School of Art print room, is included in the exhibition.
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The exhibition is at the HONG KONG OPEN PRINTSHOP in October 2013 – exact dates TBC , images can be see at Art Fiesta.
L8-05, JCCAC, 30 Pak Tin Street,
Shek Kip Mei, Kln, Hong Kong
http://www.open-printshop.org.hk
hkgaf2013@open-printshop.org.hk
tel: (852)2319 1660 fax: (852)2319 1770
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The first exhibition where Collaborations: Aberystwyth Paper Press Print will show is at IMPRESS 13 , an international printmaking festival showing in various venues in Stroud, Cheltenham and the Cotswolds.
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I am also showing at IMPRESS13 with Aberystwyth Printmakers and feature in the wonderfully produced festival catalogue on the Aberystwyth Printmakers page. For more information on the printmaking festival visit IMPRESS13.
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Following on from the Eisteddfod this is the second in a series of exhibitions curated by The Original Print Place featuring prints by artists from Aberystwyth Printmakers, Swansea Printmakers, Cardiff Print Workshop and Wrexham Regional Print Centre. Exhibition opens 21st August and continues until 15th September
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I will be showing 5 recent lithographs made in the Aberystwyth School of Art print workshop under the tutorship of master printer Paul Croft.
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