Small Works Little Treasures

Printmaking Demonstration

Saturday 28th July
2pm - 4pm

View the exhibition on the day 10am - 4pm
Sunday 29th July 12 - 4pm
Regard Gallery
372 Wilson Street Darlington NSW

Making prints is a process filled with traditions. Dating back centuries in the East with Japanese woodblock printing and in the West when used to decorate suits of armour and swords.

The methods and techniques used to make prints can be an alchemical mystery as in etching or as direct as finding an interesting piece of wood to ink up and print. One can transfer the image from a plate or block to paper by using a printing press or a wooden spoon. Printmaking has endless combinations and variations. Which ever method is utilised, the end result is a piece of art that is hand made and unique.

Come along and see how a small part of this happens!

The demonstration will be of relief printmaking techniques using wood, lino and corrugated cardboard with a discussion of the processes involved in the making of the prints on exhibition. There will be plates on display as well as a number of the tools used in developing a matrix in readiness for making art.

The image above, 'In Too Deep' is a reduction woodblock (sometimes, in jest, called a suicide block) print. The nature of repeatedly carving the block away with each printing of colour, eventually will render the block destroyed at the completion of printing. 'In Too Deep' has six different colours, which means it was carved away five times before it's demise.

Very sadly, Regard Gallery has suffered some structural damage with the recent turbulent weather in Sydney and is undergoing urgent repairs for the duration of this exhibition.

All images Copyright © 2004 - 2010 Rosanna Jurisevic