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Apr 2, 2012 • It’s getting very close now for the 20 lucky participants in this year’s BHE printmaking workshops on Skopelos in Greece! Basil and assistant Steph Bolt will meet up with our Greek host in Athens in early May to finalise materials and requirements for the June and July workshops and will then spend 3-4 weeks on...
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Apr 2, 2012 • In conjunction with the Darwin Visual Arts Association (DVAA), Basil Hall Editions has been running a number of successful workshops in woodblock and etching over the last six months. It’s strange what happens when you announce you are moving location! Everyone wants to sign up for courses now….On the weekend of March 31-April 1, Basil...
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Apr 2, 2012 • Sarah worked with us nearly five years ago as a screenprinter, and is once again in Australia after working with friends and colleagues to set up two printmaking facilities in the UK in the intervening years. Her timing was perfect, as she arrived just as the Hall’s Creek expedition set off and shared a great...
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Apr 2, 2012 • Our second remote workshop for 2012 took place in late March, and Basil was accompanied by UK printmaker, Sarah Fountain. This was our first visit for 10 years to Yarliyil Art Centre in Hall’s Creek, Western Australia, so it was exciting to see the changes (they have moved across the highway into the old Shire building and canvas...
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Feb 26, 2012 • As a result of the BHE move, staff members have all made plans for 2012. Tash and Nena have returned to tertiary study, while Senior Printer for over three years, Mats Unden, has headed over to Elcho Island, where his partner Sara is the new Art Centre Co-ordinator at Elcho Arts. Going into the first...
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Feb 26, 2012 • Basil has just returned from two workshops in February; the first, an etching weekend in Armidale, NSW, in connection with the opening of two touring exhibitions from BHE, and the second in Ampilatwatja (pronounced Umbludawatch), 4 hours NE of Alice Springs. It was great to be asked to go back to this remote community, as...
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Feb 26, 2012 • After nearly 16 years based in Darwin, Basil has decided to head south and relocate his base. BHE will join Raft Artspace and Melbourne business Chapman & Bailey in Mike Gillam’s Hele St Arts Complex in Alice Springs in the very near future! The BHE Darwin workshop will close by May 2012 and most of...
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Feb 3, 2012 • Senior Printer at BHE, Mats Undén, ran a reduction woodblock workshop for a group of Darwin secondary teachers in December. The two day workshop had 6 participants and each managed a small edition of multi-coloured woodblock prints; an impressive outcome in such a short time! The next public workshop at Basil Hall Editions is on...
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Dec 19, 2011 • There is just one place still available in our July 2-15 workshop on Skopelos this year. The June workshop is fully subscribed, as is the accommodation we suggested to our participants. Contact Basil by email immediately if you are interested. Here is some more info on the apartments we are using: Milos Apartments on Skopelos...
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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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