UCOL Summer School 2011 — 17 January – 21 January 2011
The UCOL Summer school will be held the week after our CPCANZ summer school. The UCOL menu and enrolment package is available online.
The printmaking offerings are Graham Hall with drypoint and multiblock woodcut combination, Yoka van Dyk with book arts; and Marty Vreede with harakeke paper making
This year we have decided to have an Open Workshop for the five days with (at this stage) two, workshop demonstrations. The first demonstration will be grained aluminium plate lithography with Whanganui printmaker Patrick Cush and the second demonstration will be etching through photopolymer film into zinc plate by Marty Vreede. The rest will be open workshop magic, sharing your own ideas with others.
$130.00 [for members] — non-members: $165 [waged] / $155 [unwaged]
Please confirm your registration by mailing your cheque (payable to: Central Print Council of Aotearoa New Zealand Inc.) to Central Print Council of Aotearoa New Zealand, P O Box 7131, Wanganui 4541, New Zealand. If you wish to pay by direct credit: Central Print Council of Aotearoa Westpac 03 0791 0387378 00. Please remember to include your details (email address perhaps) on the deposit so we can match your payment and registration.
The CPCANZ Summer School will be held in the Whanganui UCOL Print Workshop at 24 Taupo Quay, Whanganui. For accommodation enquiries please contact Julia – pjellery@clear.net.nz – phone 06 343 2344
A Treatise on Etching by Maxime Lalanne (François Antoine Maxime Lalanne) is available as an e-book, a free download from Project Gutenberg.
It is in English – a translation from the original (1880) French second edition. The writing has stood the test of time rather well – with just a few allowances for the language – the English of 1880 needs some translation to our contemporary understandings – the book is informative and remains quite entertaining.
The work focuses on etching of landscapes and gives a good understanding of the aesthetics and attitudes of the day. Lalanne’s approach to etching was to use line – he tends to see dry point as a method of correcting mistakes, and makes scant use of aquatinting. There’s a purity and clarity in his work – refined lines, and plate tone more than sufficient to provide rich contrast. This kind of clarity preempts impressionist and the widespread use of photography for print purposes, and yet Lalanne’s work hints at the artistic and technological developments to follow.
Some aesthetic and attitude advice:
Spirit in which the Etcher must work. — Follow your feeling, combine your modes of expression, establish points of comparison, and adopt from among the practical means at command (which depend on the effect, and on which the effect depends) those which will best render the effect desired: this is the course to be followed by the etcher. There is plenty of the instinctive which practice will develop in him, and in this he will find a growing charm and an irresistible attraction. What happy effects, what surprises, what unforeseen discoveries, when the varnish is removed from the plate! A bit of good luck and of inspiration often does more than a methodical rule, whether we are engaged on subjects of our own invention, — capricci, as the Italians call them, — or whether we are drawing from nature directly on the copper. The great aim is to arrive at the first onset at the realization of our ideas as they are present in our mind. An etching must be virginal, like an improvisation.
How Could We Resist? — over 60 exquisite miniatures by 45 printmakers … all just $100, or $150 framed.
Toured by the Central Print Council of Aotearoa, our travelling show of miniature prints is to be hosted by the Art Gallery at the Taupo Museum, 20 November to 14 December 2010. The exhibition showcases prints from the earlier shows plus new submissions, along with ceramics by Fiona Tunnicliffe.
The prints are miniatures (each no larger than 75mm x 75mm) created with various printmaking techniques including etching, screenprints, woodcuts, and monoprints. New prints have been added at each stop of this travelling exhibition to keep the exhibition fresh and to showcase the work of local CPCANZ members.
20 November to 14 December; exhibition opening on the evening of Friday, 19 November.
Art Gallery at the Taupo Museum, Story Place, in the centre of Taupo. Open daily from 10am to 4:30pm; admission charges – $5 adults, $3 seniors, students, free to children, Taupo residents and ratepayers.
If you are a printmaker (and a member of the Central Print Council), and wish to submit work to be included in the exhibition, please note:
The maximum size for your print is 75 mm x 75 mm. Mat your print in white or off-white to fit a frame 190 mm x 270 mm. Mat it to hang portrait (vertical), not landscape (horizontal). For each print you submit, enclose $5 and a copy of the CPCANZ colophon.
Please send your work(s), $5 per print, and the completed colophon(s) to arrive no later than Tuesday November 9th 2010 to — How Could We Resist?, C/- 79 Mount View Road, Bastia Hill, Whanganui 4500.
Please note: works arriving after November 9th 2010 are unable to be included in the exhibition.
How Could We Resist? rolls on!
Over 60 exquisite miniatures by 45 printmakers … all just $100, or $150 framed.
Toured by the Central Print Council of Aotearoa, our travelling show of miniature prints was such a hit in Hamilton earlier this year that two other galleries have asked to host it.
22 September to 7 November
The MVH Gallery at Marlborough Vintners Hotel specialises in original prints.
Everyone is invited to the opening at 5.30 pm on Wednesday 22 September and the exhibition is open daily from 10am to 5pm in the entrance hall gallery at the Hotel in 190 Rapaura Road, just a few minutes drive out of Blenheim.
Brisbane artist Glen Skien will be visiting New Zealand in September/October 2010. There are a few spaces left in the Auckland, Waikato, and Whanganui workshops.
Auckland
Lake House Arts Centre, Fred Thomas Drive, Takapuna for 3 workshops
Oct 2/3… Oct 4/5… Oct 6/7
Dilworth School, Epsom – 4th Workshop — Oct 9/10
Times: 9.30 – 4.00
Price: $220
Oct 2/3 and Oct 9/10 – 2 days of drypoint etching/collage/drawing
Oct 4/5 and Oct 6/7 – the first day the same as above – second day we will make an artist book using prints made on day 1.
There are places available — each workshop will have 9 participants maximum.
Contact: Susan Hurrell-Fields 20A Tawera Road, Greenlane, Auckland 1051
Phone 09 520 3442 email hurrfiel@ihug.co.nz
Waikato
Baffin Street Gallery, Pirongia
Sept 30 / Oct 1
Price: $150 (when booking a $50 deposit required)
There are spaces available — maximum class size of 15 people.
Contact: Hilary Ramage at hilary@hilaryramage.co.nz or ph 07 871 9890
Whanganui
Whanganui UCOL Print Workshop
Sept 25 / 26
Price: $ 220
Times: 9.30 – 4.00pm
Contact: Julia Ellery at pjellery@clear.net.nz
Works from Glen Skien’s current exhibition “Room, Letter, Window, Map”.
8 September – 2 October 2010 — Sheyne Tuffery — Tectonic Plates
Exhibition opening 5:30-7:00pm, Wednesday 8 September
08 September 2010 – 02 October 2010
Solander Gallery, 218 Willis Street, Wellington — tel: +64 4 920 0913 — Map
Hours
* 10am to 5:30pm Tuesday to Friday
* 10am to 4pm Saturday
* Closed Sunday and Monday
8 September – 2 October 2010 — Marty Vreede — implement of change
Exhibition opening 5:30-7:00pm, Wednesday 8 September
08 September 2010 – 02 October 2010
Solander Gallery, 218 Willis Street, Wellington — tel: +64 4 920 0913 — Map
Hours
* 10am to 5:30pm Tuesday to Friday
* 10am to 4pm Saturday
* Closed Sunday and Monday
