Antonia Aitken prints for BHE
Printmaker, Antonia Aitken has been assisting Basil with a number of new editions for Beswick, Iwantja Arts in Indulkana, Kaltjiti Arts in Fregon and Mimili Maku. Here Antonia is placing the paper over a new collagraph by Indulkana artist Whiskey Tjukangu. The collagraph block is actually a painted and carved woodblock, inked up intaglio. It...
New prints for Mimili Maku
Clinton Barker and Basil have been working at Megalo Print Studio on new silkscreen prints for Mimili Maku Arts Centre in South Australia and for Djilpin Arts in Beswick, NT. Because the BHE silkscreen gear is still on its way from Darwin, we accessed Megalo’s fine workshop in its last few weeks at the Watson...
Sadly, we never made it to Alice
Well, a hard decision has been made; and that is NOT to go ahead with the move to our proposed new studio adjacent to Raft Artspace in Alice Springs. BHE was to have established the silkscreen equipment and one of our larger etching presses there in March, but we have decided to consolidate all the...
Mimili artists at work
A line of Mimili artists at work on the acetate sheets they painted for a new series of screen prints to be published in 2013 at Basil Hall Editions. The beautiful images will be printed in Canberra by Basil and Clinton and the first editions should be available around April, 2013. Here, Betty Pumani is...
Who was that masked man at Mimili?
After four days at Indulkana, Beth and Basil drove each day the following week to the nearby community of Mimili, where we worked for the first time with the artists at Mimili Maku, the art centre there. Co-ordinator at Mimili Maku, Hannah Grace, looked after us well as we introduced a group of artists to...
Beth made scones at Iwantja Arts
Here’s a first! In addition to turning out around 20 small editions of reduction woodblocks at Iwantja Arts in Indulkana (South Australia) in late November, we also brought scones, jam and cream. The scone maker (Melbourne printmaker, Beth Conway) is seen here proudly checking her edition in the soon-to-be-renovated Iwantja building. Devonshire teas are not...
Another Indulkana trip; this time Basil and Nena
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...
Collectors! 40 beautiful woodblocks in a Tjanpi box
Here is the first look at our new 20th Anniversary Desert Mob folio box, containing prints from each of the 40 Desart-affiliated art centres in Central Australia, APY Lands, the Barkly, Kimberley, Western Desert and Northern goldfields of Western Australia.With a specially commissioned Tjanpi Weavers piece on each box, this is a collectors’ item. There...
Proofing Maringka’s new etching in Darwin
In addition to the folio set of 10 large-scale silkscreens, Tjungu Palya has just launched four new etchings at Nomad Art and Randall Fine Art. Nomad’s exhibition was opened by Basil in the Holiday Inn on Darwin’s Esplanade (during the Telstra Art Awards week) on Friday 14th August at 10.00am. A big crowd of locals...
Wingu Tingima’s new silkscreen print
Here is Wingu’s beautiful silkscreen. She painted the image onto sheets of acetate during a workshop conducted by Basil in Nyapari in March 2009. The work by the Tjungu Palya artists is particularly strong, owing to the involvement of Art Co-ordinator Amanda Dent, whose long-term association with Wingu and others at Nyapari has lead to...
Tjungu Palya celebrates a new folio of silkscreens
This stunning new silkscreen by Maringka Baker has joined 9 others in a beautiful folio boxed set just released by Tjungu Palya Art Centre in Nyapari. Other artists include Jimmy Baker, Ginger Wikilyiri, Wingu Tingima and Nyankulya Watson, making this a must-have for collectors of Central Australian art. The folio sets and other individual prints...
Senior Painter Jimmy Baker at Tjungu Palya Art Centre
After the March workshop with Basil, senior painter, Jimmy Baker worked closely with Amanda Dent at Tjungu Palya Art Centre over a period of some weeks to paint the cells for a new silkscreen. This is to be printed and launched around July.
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