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...
Mangkaja Art Centre hosts an etching workshop
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...
Paruku Project, Mulan 2011
The Paruku project, organised and orchestrated by NSW artist Mandy Martin, and involving scientists, anthropologists, writers, artists, pilots, benefactors and fabulous camp cooks took place in August near Lake Gregory in the Great Sandy Desert of WA. Basil was lucky enough to attend for four days’ camping with the group and was able to meet...
Nyapurla Morgan linocuts
One of Nyapurla Morgan’s beautiful new reduction linocuts, produced in small editions of 10 at the April workshop in Wiluna, run by Basil, the Tjukurba Co-ordinator, Heather Charlton and ably assisted by Sue Trevillian.
And on to the Northern Goldfields of WA (Wiluna)
Wiluna artist, Nyapurla Morgan carving a lino block. Basil has just returned from one of the longest trips we make each year. To get to Wiluna, we have to fly first to Perth for an overnight stop. Then it’s up with the birds to catch a Skipper’s plane the 1000kms north again (in the direction...
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...
Mats spends a big week at Wiluna
Mats, assisted by Patricia, currently a volunteer at Tjukurba Art Gallery at Wiluna, recently completed 22 editions of colour reduction linocuts using Tjukurba’s MES press! They are seen here at the end of a BIG week of non-stop (and late night) printing with many of the new lino prints drying on the line and on the table...
Mrs Golding at work on a line etching at Wanarn 2010
Mrs Carol Golding worked prolifically both at Warakurna and at “home” at the aged care facility at Wanarn, 100kms away during the WDM workshops hosted recently by Warakurna Artists and run by Basil Hall and Edwina Circuitt. Here she’s having her first go at line etching. This will be a beauty!
Ken Shepherd putting the finishing touches to a sugarlift
Emerging Warakurna artist Ken Shepherd made two beautiful sets of plates for what will be a pair of stunning colour etchings. Is is expected that these and other prints from the WDM Workshops will be launched at Nomad Art in Darwin in August during the Darwin Festival.
A thorny visitor at Warakurna
We could have made some interesting marks on a plate with this spiky little visitor, but she looked like she was pregnant, so she was carefully taken back out to a safe place away from the frantic activity at the Art Centre.
Western Desert Print Workshop 2010
Warakurna Artists was host to the long-awaited Western Desert Mob Printmaking Workshops, funded through the Australia Council for the Arts. Over a two week period, Basil and the respective Art Centre staff from Warakurna Artists, Tjarlirli Arts (Tjukurla), Papulankutja Arts (Blackstone) and Kayili Arts (Patjarr) assisted artists to draw, paint and scratch stories onto zinc...
This is how it’s done, Peter
Charlie Colbung demonstrating roller technique on a woodblock print to fellow WA artist Peter Farmer during Mats’ recent workshop with a group of Katanning artists
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