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Dec 19, 2011 • Milos Apartments on Skopelos comprise 7 rooms, each capable of accommodating at least two and, typically, three people. There is plenty of shared terrace space outside the rooms. Much of this faces north (to your left in the picture) over the Aegean Sea towards neighbouring Alonyssos Island. Towards the far left of the illustration, just...
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Dec 9, 2011 • Basil has spent some time at this lonely turnoff on the Stuart Highway. On two occasions no-one has been there to meet him for up to half an hour (no names!) and he has sat in the limited shade of the mailbox hoping that he won’t have to carry all his gear in to the...
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Nov 13, 2011 • Darwin artist, Talitha Kennedy, inking her plate during the first of three workshops Basil is running in Darwin in November and December for local artists and teachers. Jan Milner-Cole has been rudely obscured, but is looking on intently! A group of seven enjoyed etching and woodblock printing for two days during the first of two...
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Nov 11, 2011 • Mervyn Street spit biting a new etching plate during the workshop conducted at Mangkaja Arts in Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia in November by Basil and Mats. Mangkaja purchased a small etching press for the project and it made a huge difference to be able to show over 20 artists their proofs in full colour at...
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Nov 3, 2011 • Basil and Judy examining some of the new proofs in progress at QCA in Brisbane, where they worked on Judy’s new etchings this week. We have been working together so long we even pose the same way for photographs!
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Nov 3, 2011 • Judy keeps tabs on Basil at Queensland College of the Arts, October 2011. QCA kindly allowed us to work together there this week to resolve the plates and make new ones to add to those Judy has just had in the USA during her residency at University of West Virginia. Although it was assessment week at QCA,...
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Oct 28, 2011 • This week we have released our new Skopelos Printmaking Workshop brochure for two workshops Basil Hall and Steph Bolt will run in June and July next year. We have already sent copies to those who attended this year and also a number of people who expressed an interest in “next time”. Places have started to...
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Oct 25, 2011 • Ruby Alderton, Annie Studd and Will Stubbs examine the first proof of one of the exciting new Seven Sisters etchings which are currently being made by the seven Yunupingu sisters of Yirrkala/Nhulunbuy in collaboration with Basil Hall Editions. Basil ran a workshop in Yirrkala in late October and, with the local team from the Buku...
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Oct 13, 2011 • Judy Watson, who recently commenced a new series of etchings with us, then took all her plates to the University of Virginia in October as part of her residency there. The students assisted her to print up proofs of the latest plates (a group of her assistants are seen here with Judy and their Lecturer) which are now winging...
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Oct 13, 2011 • The 32 painted acetates for this beautiful silkscreen were done a number of years before this important Haasts Bluff artist sadly passed away. Our screenprinter, Clinton Barker, did a great job once the print was approved for editioning and a limited number of these colourful orginal silkscreen prints is available through the Ikuntji Art Centre or...
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Sep 14, 2011 • Brisbane-based artist Judy Watson was here this week to start a new project with us. Judy has an invitation to work with University of West Virginia students in Charlottesville, USA late in September and has been developing some new plates to take with her. She is also exhibiting in Washington while she is in the...
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Sep 7, 2011 • This beautiful etching was produced in time for the Art Fair during this year’s Telstra Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards. Regina had made the plates at a workshop in Peppimenarti last year, but they had not been published. The delicate washes have come out very well in this subtly coloured image, which is...
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