Changing Climates Reinventing Lives

Press Gang Printmakers from Noosa Queensland have invited a number of printmaking studios throughout Australia to participate in an exchange of mini prints based on the theme of climate change.

My image is of a family of polar bears. The subject of polar bears as an image felt quite timely as there has been a lot of attention of late regarding polar bear cubs in a number of European zoos. There have also been a number of documentaries that focus on the plight faced by these bears as a result of the gradual changes to their unique environment from the direct action at our hands.

I fear that we may be watching the slow extinction of yet another animal from our planet.

The matrix is a woodblock worked in the traditional Japanese woodblock method of cutting and carving a piece of plywood using Japanese knives, tools and techniques. Western inking methods were employed when applying ink to the block with a brayer and then hand printed with a ball bearing baren.

Each image is to be no larger that 12cm x12cm for a series of traveling exhibitions.



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