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| A Print Portfolio from Sydney College of the Arts |
| 22 February to 20 March 2008 |
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Folio 20 is an exciting exhibition of work produced
by twenty visual artists who are all associated with Sydney College of
the Arts, a faculty of the University of Sydney and one of Sydney's top
art schools. The participating artists are either artists/academic
staff or were, at the time the project was executed, postgraduate
research students at the College.
The
Folio consists of 20 works, one per artist, and was coordinated by
postgraduate students Janette Conboy and Leigh Rigozzi in 2007.
Participating artists are:
Tom Arthur, Karen Ball, Rebecca
Beardmore, Deirdre Brollo, Janette Conboy, Mirabel Fitzgerald, Andrew
Hurle, Cecilia Huynh, Jonathon James, Claude Jones, Isabella Lee, Kerry
Macaulay, Jo Morris, Kate Mulheron, Paul Ogier, Nerida Olson, Colin
Rhodes, Leigh Rigozzi, Janet Parker Smith, Justin Trendall.
The
work of these artists encompasses a rich diversity in printmedia
practice and it was decided that to best demonstrate this the folio
should not be based on a theme. Instead, each artist was asked to
consider and respond to a quotation from Paul Auster's Leviathan.
In
2006, Leigh Rigozzi was named one of "Australia's top 25 artists aged
25 and under" by Art and Australia magazine. A comic book illustrator,
Leigh explores the mysteries of existence in delicate detail and the
screenprint in this show represents Leigh sitting around wishing he was
Philip Guston, a painter and printmaker in the New York School, whose
later work included cartoonish renderings of personal symbols and
objects.
From a landscape
photograph with a nineteenth century aesthetic by Paul Ogier to Kerry
MacAulay's memories of growing up in the country, to Deirdre Brollo's
ideas of journey, exile and memory, to Janet Parker-Smith's reflections
on the self and the self within the environment, to an image exploring
an imaginary world of the monstrous and perceptions of physical
otherness... these are just a few of the themes explored in this
presentation of highly creative printmedia using etching, screenprint,
lithograph, collage, embossing and linocut techniques.
The
artists featured have been exhibited widely both in Australia and
internationally and many of them are represented in collections.
Folio 20 is on show at the Marianne Newman Gallery, Suite 1/1 Albany Street, Crows Nest, from 22 February to 20 March 2008.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 5.00pm
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