tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49375418273286458042024-03-12T20:55:03.105-07:00Word and ImageWork by Penny Peckham - Prints, artists' books, and arts writing.pennypeckhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04241288787284369143noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937541827328645804.post-3059201517784595712018-08-19T19:12:00.001-07:002018-08-19T19:12:32.535-07:00A day off in WinterWell, this post has been in draft form for a few weeks now, owing to ongoing, boring issues involving my laptop (which doesn't work as well as it used to), my newish ipad (which I can't get to do everything I'd hoped it would) and finally the library computer. I was almost going to abandon it, with all the other unfinished drafts(!!!) but decided that it might still be on interest. So...<br />
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I had been working really hard over the past couple of weeks and so, despite several impending deadlines, I decided to give myself a day off on Sunday and took the train to Swan Hill - on the Murray River, which is the border between Victoria and New South Wales.<br />
Sunday is the only day you can get there and back by train from central Victoria, or indeed from Melbourne. (From Melbourne it would be a considerably longer day!) A mid afternoon train from Swan Hill to Melbourne is scheduled on Sundays only - presumably to take all the Swan Hill locals back to work or study after spending the weekend at home.<br />
Because it’s quite a long country trip the train is one of the really comfortable ones with a buffet car if you need it. On a mid-Winder Sunday, it was also confortable empty, with plenty of room to spread out. I really enjoy travelling by train - sitting watching the the changing landscape, the small towns and farms, the flat land and silos dotted around northern Victoria. I had knitting and music and found it very fulfilling and relaxing 'slow' time.<br />
If you were travelling with small children, they may be enjoy the simple pleasure of watching the farm animals along the way. Because you’re higher up than when travelling in a car and the train passes only a few times a day, there was a lovely view of cattle and sheep along the line, some grazing contently, others dashing in fright from the passing train. I saw quite a few calves and was highly amused by gamboling lambs. Now I really know what gamboling means - a joyous kicking up of both front and then back legs, a bit like a bucking horse.<br />
I discovered that you can’t actually get to Swan Hill using a Myki travel card; you need a paper ticket. Fortunately the conductor was friendly and helpful, touching my Myki off after Eaglehawk (just past Bendigo) and selling me the required paper ticket. Also fortunately I had enough cash!<br />
I arrived at Swan Hill at about 12.30 and enjoyed a twenty minute walk along the river to the Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery - my actual destination. Before going in I stopped at Spoons Riverside restaurant, just next door on the river, for lunch. It’s really quite nice, with a big bright indoor space with full length glass all around and plenty of outdoor seating, all overlooking the Murray. The menu is fresh, with a focus on local produce. They didn’t have the delicious terrine I had last time, so I opted for a chicken pie, one of the just-baked second batch for the day. It was on the small side, but tasty.<br />
If you felt inclined and were more organised than I was there are lots of tables and seating along the riverside. I saw quite a few people, caravanners mostly, enjoying their sandwiches in the sunshine, watching the river go by. There's also a lot playground equipment and free exercise machines along the river<br />
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So, the real reason of my journey was to see the Swan Hill Print and Drawing Acquisitive Awards. I caught it on the final day, in fact. It was well worth the trip. There was a terrific range of works. </div>
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The winning drawing was Jan Davis’s quite minimalist <i>Georgica #25</i>, 2017, ink and stitching on Nepalese paper. (below)</div>
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The winning print was a lovely quiet book by Elizabth Banfield, <i>from Loftia Park</i>, 2017, linocut prints and stitching on kozo paper.<br />
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Interestingly the two winning works are similar in many ways - the use of colour, stitching and light handmade paper. Elizabeth's work was one of two artists books, both inspired by bushfires. The other, by Dianne Fogwell, was also a wonderful book </div>
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Besides her prize-winning drawing, Jan Davis also had a print in the exhibition,which I liked very much.</div>
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Another work that I really enjoyed was one of the two video works in the show. Todd Fuller's <i>Billy's Swan</i> is a very beautiful and moving stop motion video created using hundreds of chalk and charcoal drawings based upon a dream sequence from the 2000 film <i>Billy Elliott. </i>The drawings are bookended by footage of Fuller himself dancing the sequence.</div>
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Fuller's work can still be seen at Bendigo Art Gallery, as it is a finalist in the Paul Guest Drawing Prize. I would recommend a trip to Bendigo to see this too, especially as you can also see Myuran Sukumaran: Another Day in Paradise, curated by Ben Quilty and Michael Dagostino.</div>
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<br />pennypeckhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04241288787284369143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937541827328645804.post-13749675182738301182018-02-05T22:12:00.000-08:002018-02-05T22:12:15.542-08:00Something different - print and knitting come togetherI've been thinking for a while about having a go at printing linocuts onto fabric. My first attempt brings together two of my interests - printmaking and knitting. I have cut quite a few plates of knitted textures over the past few years and so decided to print some onto calico to make some knitting bags. This was largely prompted by the fact that I've begun the journey into the Artists Market thing and feel the need to have a diversity of products. I used some fabric ink that I've had for a very long time, from when I had a Print Gocco kit many years ago. It seems to have worked okay. I've ironed them to set the ink and all seems well, although clearly they need some more ironing!)<br />
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<br />pennypeckhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04241288787284369143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937541827328645804.post-88029263718872716522017-08-25T21:04:00.001-07:002017-08-25T21:04:18.659-07:00Working with what I haveI know I'm not the only one who has days sometimes when nothing works, I have no ideas and I feel like I should just give up trying to be an artist. Last Friday was one of those - just terrible! (It didn't help that I was trying to print in greens. That, I think I should give up on!)<br />
At least I have other creative interests and after giving up for the day I could do some knitting!<br />
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I have had a couple of much more positive days in the studio in the last week and also have to remind myself that part of the issue at the moment is that I'm working under the self-imposed restriction of working with what I have. As a printmaker who doesn't often work on a large scale I have lots of small pieces of 'leftover' paper and this year (being somewhat financially challenged!) I am attempting to use up what I have.<br />
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Also, I suppose part of the problem at the moment is that I have been working on a body of work that will hopefully have several groups of outcomes - a series of square format prints in different (smallish) sizes, some larger works that will be pieced from yet smaller squares and a series of small artist books. So currently I have a lot of work in progress, but at times have difficulty in seeing how I will get to a finished state with much of it.<br />
So these are some of the pieces that hopefully will eventually be part of something!<br />
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And trying out some possibilities for a pieced work in blues...<br />
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(Most days) I have enjoyed experimenting with colour and layering forms both natural and manmade, using stencils on a gelatin plate, working with cardboard collagraph plates, and finally overprinting some with linocut text - fragments of Leonard Cohen lyrics/poetry.<br />
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<br />pennypeckhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04241288787284369143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937541827328645804.post-52893604928571370382017-07-15T23:32:00.000-07:002017-07-15T23:32:24.330-07:00Workshop with Lorna CraneThis time last week I was deep into a very stimulating workshop with artist Lorna Crane from Pambula.<br />
It was part of the FibreArts Australia forum held at Ballarat Grammar - almost of week of art-making and mixing will lovely like-minded people. It was excellent!<br />
Lorna is primarily a painter, but her speciality is that she makes her own brushes from a range of found and natural materials. The brushes are themselves works of art, but are also the means for some very expressive, gestural mark-making. <br />
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So these are some of the brushes I made....<br />
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After a bit of messing about with the ink and the various brushes, we began to make some books...<br />
working on different types of found papers and fabric, which we were then encourages to tear up and use to collage. It was all very liberating experimental. A bit like play...in a good way!<br />
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Most days I went for a late afternoon walk around Lake Wendouree, which was very close and much bigger and more beautiful than I'd realised.<br />
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<br />pennypeckhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04241288787284369143noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937541827328645804.post-55316917105776405082017-05-07T23:39:00.000-07:002017-05-07T23:39:58.731-07:00Work in Progress - and some finished!I have been working!<br />
I've been enjoying experimenting with collagraphs and gelatin printing, layering and experimenting with colour.<br />
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Recently got to the point of finishing some small (18 x 18 cm) works off - with some linocut text for an exhibition with a 30 x 30 cm size limit. The size they will be when framed.<br />
Still a bit Leonard Cohen obsessed!<br />
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<br />pennypeckhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04241288787284369143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937541827328645804.post-65226750939802327362016-02-03T17:16:00.001-08:002016-02-03T17:16:26.946-08:00Too late for a quick look back !!Oh my goodness, I started writing this post as a quick look at the last few months of 2015 as the year was finishing!<br />
But now it's long gone!<br />
I was just going to touch upon some of the highlights of the last two or three months of the year.<br />
I'm going to have to give up on that and just mention a couple of things here now, then start off 2016 with a new post about current things.<br />
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During 2015, my first full year of living in central Victoria I was very happy to become part of the Goldfields Printmakers group. More information about the group can be found <a href="http://www.goldfieldsprintmakers.com/" target="_blank">here.</a><br />
James Pasakos, from Federation University, Ballarat, attended IMPACT9 - the international biennial printmaking, held in 2015 in Hangzhou, China, from 18 to 21 September. There he presented a folio of prints by members of the group referencing the history of the Chinese prospectors in the region during the gold rush of the later 19th century. <br />
For my research I visited Bendigo's Golden Dragon Museum and Chinese Garden. I was very impressed by the huge collection of artefacts, objects and installations. I could have stayed much longer than the time I'd allowed! I'll have to get back there.<br />
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I've always been attracted to ginger jars, so used one on each print, combined with<br />
calligraphy on the first taken from the inner wall of the garden.<br />
Well-known Beijing poet and calligrapher Ke Wen Hui arrived in Australia for a family visit in 1998. Upon viewing the Golden Dragon Museum he was impressed by the Chinese heritage in Bendigo, and composed several poems, painting them on the walls.<br />
The given translation of the poem I used is:<br />
'In deep thinking, visitors will go home with cranes nestled in their sleeves. Behold the beauty and prosperity of the Garden. Surrounded by the tranquility of this environment, you will only think reflective thoughts.'<br />
The other image on the second print is a detail from an embroidered garment.<br />
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My last post was just before a small solo exhibition I had in October/November at 69 Smith Street gallery, a small artist-run gallery in Collingwood (an inner suburb of Melbourne). The gallery is a double-storey shopfront with multiple spaces. It's nice to exhibit there because there are always several other solo or group shows there at the same time and so you get quite a good audience. I had a small space upstairs and showed prints from four different bodies of work. The last year or so has been a time of trying to work out where I'm going.<br />
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I have made quite a lot of work relating to knitting and other needlecrafts over the years. <br />
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There were a couple of recent works from the ongoing series, <em>A Taxonomy of (Art) Cats</em> and new works messing about with still life elements and layering.<br />
This one is more recent; getting a bit braver with colour!<br />
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I'm really enjoying working on this series, being very playful and experimental with colour.<br />
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<br />pennypeckhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04241288787284369143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937541827328645804.post-57948474621912659082015-10-16T04:39:00.000-07:002015-10-16T04:39:16.983-07:00Simple ThingsI've been very busy making work for various exhibitions and frequently forget to take photos of works in progress. But i have a small solo exhibition opening next week and so post this quickly here and hopefully may get back at more length very soon.<br />
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Penny Peckham works primarily as a printmaker, and with a
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Planning on combining these two plates as a single image. Have printed the knitting hands (mine) several times in order to play around. Perhaps I should remove all of the dark knitted fabric...or lighten it up very much, leaving just just a suggestion?pennypeckhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04241288787284369143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937541827328645804.post-9390387021730619992015-05-03T19:01:00.001-07:002015-05-03T19:02:36.866-07:00Making ConnectionsIn the last couple of weeks or so I've managed to get to see a handful of fabulous exhibitions locally.<br />
First, I went to Woodbine Art in the lovely village of Malmsbury for the opening of Melinda Harper's exhibition of paintings, prints and embroideries. Some of the works actually combine painting and embroidery. She lives not too far from me in central Victoria and is a founding member (as am I) of Castlemaine Press, a printmaking collective, which was launched last year, not long after I moved to Castlemaine, and which will have its own studio in the next few months at <a href="http://www.lot19art.com/" target="_blank">Lot 19.</a><br />
I've admired Harper's colourful abstract paintings for some years. In fact, you can see her influence in my series of paintings, <i>From the Book of LC</i> - Leonard Cohen lyrics set within coloured abstract fields.<br />
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There is also a link to the work of Vivienne Binns (the subject of my doctoral thesis). Her <i>In Memory of the Unknown Artist</i> paintings look like modernist abstract paintings, but they bare actually based upon what she calls 'domestic surfaces', including carpets, bathroom tiles, as well as knitted rugs she purchased in country op shops. One of Harper's painting/embroideries is based upon a piece of cross stitch that she found in a Castlemaine op shop. A tentative link perhaps, but these works certainly reference needlework, an art form not always considered 'art'. There is to be a major retrospective of Harper's work, opening at Heide Museum of Modern Art in late June, which I'm looking forward to immensely. <a href="http://www.heide.com.au/exhibitions/opening-soon/exhibition/colour-sensation-the-works-of-melinda-harper/edate/2015-06-27/eid/942" target="_blank">Here</a> is some information about it.<br />
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I also went to Bendigo (for a job interview) and so dropped into the Bendigo Art Gallery for lunch (which was delicious) and to see <i>Imagining Ned</i>. There were a few familiar (from Heide) Nolan and Tucker works there, as well as some Kelly-inspired work by contemporary artists, including a fabulous linocut print - <i>Self Portrait as Ned Kelly aged 50 </i>- by Clayton Tremlett, another Castlemaine Press founding member!<br />
There are a couple of tapestries of Nolan paintings, which are particularly beautiful.<br />
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There is an exhibition catalogue that can be viewed in pdf available <a href="http://www.bendigoartgallery.com.au/Exhibitions/Current_Exhibitions/Imagining_Ned" target="_blank">here.</a><br />
I also went across the road to LaTrobe University's Visual Arts Centre, which almost always has interesting exhibitions. I was happy to chance upon an exhibition of Denise Green's work - an Australian artist based in New York. There are a couple of small paintings by her in the Heide collection, which I do admire, currently hanging in the laundry in Heide II.<br />
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These earlier works have the simple forms that Green has used for much of her career. The one on the right has the fan form which she still uses extensively, somewhat modified in the painting below, in the current exhibition.The inspiration for the fan shape came from two 19th century Chinese artists, Ju Chao and Ju Lian, whose paintings were made in the form of fans and album leafs.<br />
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There are two works that directly reference colour theory and utilize colour swatches. The signature fan shape is a consistent element across the multiple small panels. There is something scientific about these two works, in the systematic arrangement of panels that relates both to colour theory and to mathematics. There are multiple influences cited in the catalogue, one of the most important being </div>
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In the most recent works photographs of waterholes around the Bendigo region are spliced together with sections of unrelated abstract studio-based drawings.<br />
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As you can see, quite a diverse exhibition!<br />
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In the second, smaller space is a very beautiful and moving exhibition by Maree Santilla, <em>Desiring the</em> <em>Undesirable.</em> On moving to rural Victoria a few years ago Santilla was profoundly affected by the everyday sight of roadkill. She collected broken and fragile carcasses of foxes and other animals, bound them in ceramic bandages and fired them in a kiln, so several of the works include both a crumbling ceramic cast of the body and skeletal remains after the firing. These artefacts/relics are laid out within items of domestic furniture from the post war soldier settlement period. Lighting and reflections are used to emphasise their fragility. Worth seeing if you can. I should take photos, I know, but there is more information and some images <a href="http://www.latrobe.edu.au/vac/exhibitions/gallery-two-details?queries_title_query=The%20Mason%20Family%20Trust%20Exhibition%20Award:%20Desiring%20the%20Undesirable&queries_gallery_query=Gallery%20Two" target="_blank">here.</a><br />
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<br />pennypeckhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04241288787284369143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937541827328645804.post-88402359072077622572015-04-21T02:05:00.001-07:002015-04-21T04:38:44.948-07:00Simple thingsAs well as doing a bit of gelatin plate printing lately, I have also been doing some planning and cutting of lino plates. I've decided to revisit a favourite theme from a few years ago for a postcard exchange with the theme 'first'.<br />
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I also proofed this plate, which I'm planning to print over a second plate of large circles, very pale possibly translucent grey. Yes, keeping with the circles...and other simple objects.</div>
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Simple objects can be carriers of multiple meanings. Thinking of the work of Australian artist <a href="http://www.dainesinger.com/katherine-hattam/" target="_blank">Katherine Hattam</a> and of course, Van Gogh.</div>
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Both are on the plate at this stage. I need to get rid of one, also clean it up a bit and fix the nick in the arm of the chair! Planning to fill the gap on the second plate.</div>
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<br />pennypeckhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04241288787284369143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937541827328645804.post-32013518058290561022015-03-03T18:20:00.000-08:002015-03-03T18:20:17.215-08:00Progress - circles and gelatinJust a few images of the progress I've made recently. <br />
The shoe-box is just about done. It's been a lot of work!<br />
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And I've had a few more sessions messing about with gelatin printing - some days more successfully than others. These are some beginnings, works in progress, experiments and a couple just about done...the print, anyway. They might be book pages.</div>
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pennypeckhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04241288787284369143noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937541827328645804.post-15220545110857299532015-02-07T23:29:00.001-08:002015-02-07T23:29:24.381-08:00I suppose it is too late to wish you all a Happy New Year!I am beginning to settle into my new life - and am loving it! I've never lived in the country before, but have for many years had a desire to do so eventually, and have been talking about making this move - to Castlemaine - for about ten years. So, it has taken me a while....<br />
I'm currently driving to Melbourne once a week for a couple of days work, and am really enjoying it; getting to see the countryside in the best light, particularly the early morning, but early summer evenings are lovely too. I've begun to realise why so many artists are drawn to the landscape as subject. I'm beginning to feel quite emotional when I reach the hills as I near home - after only a few months!<br />
And although I've still two or three fairly major things to organise - particularly getting a shed lined and insulated and transformed into a decent studio - I do have a small studio space in the house and have started playing around pretty regularly with ideas and media. I visited the studio of a new friend, a local artist, and we had a lovely couple of hours of show and tell, which inspired me to get back to making books.<br />
So I made a gelatine/glycerine plate, pulled out some book works-in-progress and have had a few sessions playing.<br />
I'm quite pleased with these experiments and beginnings.<br />
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I've got a month or so to fill that white shoe-box with circles. It's a looking back at my printmaking up to this point. Seems a reasonable thing to do, with everything changing...and moving made me realize what a lot of work I have sitting around in boxes and folders. <br />
I'm very much steeped in Leonard Cohen lyrics/poetry at the moment, as I'm reading another biography - <em>I'm Your Man</em>, by Sylvie Simmons - given to me by one of my lovely sons for Christmas (although he didn't actually choose it. You get the best presents when you buy them yourself!) The biography is the best I've read...and it makes me go back to the songs, listening closely.<br />
So the shoe-box of circles of prints will be titled after a Cohen song - That Don't Make It Junk. The lyric goes, 'took my diamond to the pawnshop, but that don't make it junk'. These are all quite flawed diamonds - mostly student works, proofs and unsuccessful prints. <br />
I also had one more miniprint edition to send off in January - for the Winged Messengers Exchange, which will be exhibited at Hahndorf Academy in the Adelaide Hills during Adelaide Fringe Festival. Proceeds from sales will go to the Bird SA conservation fund. Some more information and images can be found <a href="https://www.facebook.com/wingedmessengers" target="_blank">here.</a><br />
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But to finish the year, I thought I'd post images of the prints I made for the various exchanges.<br />
They are all linocut prints and I had to keep them fairly straightforward, in terms of process.<br />
Firstly there was the Magpie postcard exchange, organised by the Printmaking Sisters (Annie Day and Robin Ezra) from NSW.<br />
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Next was the International Print Exchange, a long-running, unthemed exchanged organised by greendoorprintmaking.org. See more <a href="https://www.facebook.com/InternationalPrintExchange" target="_blank">here.</a><br />
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My print a simple image of an armchair - 'Waiting'.<br />
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Next was another themed postcard exchange- <em>Bears and Blooms: Postcards from the Edge of</em> <em>Extinction,</em> organised by Bittondi Printmakers Association in Adelaide. My postcard is of a small orchid, the Robust Greenhood Orchid, previously believed to be extinct, which was recently discovered to be growing near Bendigo, not too far from where I'm now living.<br />
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Most recently I posted off my twelve prints to the US for the huge exchange organised by The Sketchbook Project. The theme 'Just a second' seemed to offer so many possibilities. I considered my second-place medals from my teenage calisthenics years, some sort of stop sign (just a minute, hang on, wait up...), but was attracted to the idea of second-best. Perhaps - just a second-best friend...but I went with 'Just a second-best dress', partly because I have a bit of a collection of images of beautiful vintage dresses.<br />
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Because I was so pushed for time, (aren't I always!) I forgot to take photos before I posted them off, so this is a proof.<br />
I'm quite in awe of the organisers of all these exchanges, who dedicate so much time, energy and organisational skill to each project. In most cases there is an exhibition of the prints and usually one print from each participant is used for fundraising. It's a wonderful thing to do! Yay for the www!<br />
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<br />pennypeckhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04241288787284369143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937541827328645804.post-37128100069508178352014-06-12T00:57:00.000-07:002014-06-12T00:57:16.667-07:00Well, I really have been distracted!!In spite of starting the year with very good intentions, it just doesn't seem to be happening here! I have made some work, but life has largely been absorbed by a long-planned move to the country. I've had to resolve to get this done and not worry too much about what else doesn't get done...because one of my primary aims is to change my life so that I have more time for art making and writing. I sold my house in the Northern suburbs of Melbourne about six weeks ago, and am now in the very exciting process of looking for something to buy in central Victoria. <br />
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I have been slowly working on another linocut in the series 'A Taxonomy of (Art) Cats'. This one is 'Two cats', and is a little different in format.<br />
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The other thing that I finally managed to do is to open an Etsy shop.</div>
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Here's a link to it, if you care to take a look.</div>
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pennypeckhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04241288787284369143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937541827328645804.post-79785400736795906002014-02-08T17:39:00.003-08:002014-02-08T17:39:55.297-08:00February already!Oh dear! It's terrible to realise that it's February already and I've only managed one post this year...in spite of very good intentions. My attempt to establish a daily practice - to produce something, a collage, a drawing, each day has faltered, staggered, restarted. I have to blame the lethargy-inducing extreme heat. We've had strings of days around and above the 40 degree Celcius mark. Very draining! I have been working on a print for ‘Bimblebox 153 Birds’, a multi-arts project responding to the 151+ bird species recorded on the Bimblebox Nature Refuge, Queensland, which is threatened by the proposed China First mine. I'm working on a couple of versions of a linocut print of the bird I was allocated - the Varied Sitella. More information and further links can be found on the project's facebook page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bimblebox-153-Birds/430044570446933" target="_blank">here. </a><br />
Here are working proofs of both. I was surprised that I prefer version 1, when I thought that version 2 was looking much stronger. They both need more work however.<br />
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I treated myself to a short trip to Sydney this week, mainly to see the Yoko Ono exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art. It is a very participatory exhibition - lots of works that visitors add to, or may take away from. It's quite beautiful and meditative, which sounds somewhat contradictory in light the participatory elements, but true nevertheless. There are a couple of videos of Yoko performing her work 'Cut Piece', one from 1964 and one from 2003. It's quite difficult to watch the early one. She looks like a young, very vulnerable, but courageous woman - very moving. In the latter she's much more in control and respected by the audience/participants. There was an early Fluxus film of anonymous bottoms that I found funny and intriguing.<br />
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If you happen to be in Sydney over the next 6 weeks or so, I would highly recommend making the trip to Carriageworks, not far from Redfern Station, to see <em>Chance</em>, the wonderful installation by French artist Christian Boltanski. Carriageworks is a multi-arts venue in a huge old industrial building, presumably where train carriages were built. It's the perfect space for Boltanski's tall, narrow scaffolding structure through which a ribbon - of grainy images of faces of newborn infants sourced from Polish press announcements - runs.<br />
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I also went to the Art Gallery of NSW to see <em>America, Painting a Nation</em>, which was quite interesting. Much more impressive, for me, is the exhibition <a href="http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/yirrkala-drawings/" target="_blank">Yirrkala-drawings</a>. There are 81 coloured crayon drawings on butchers paper from 1947, by senior ceremonial leaders at Yirrkala in north-east Arnhem Land, who produced hundreds of the vibrant drawings for the anthropologists Ronald and Catherine Berndt.<br />
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I was also delighted to see Imants Tillers' <em>Conversations with the Bride</em> on show in the 20th Century Australian galleries. It was quite a wonderful experience to wander through and have an up-close viewing of this installation that I had studied as a student of Australian Art History at Latrobe University in the mid 1990s. You can probably work out from these details the identity of 'the bride' referred to in the title!<br />
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Though pushed for time (had to catch the train to the airport), I always love to pay a visit to some of my favourite works - Grace Cossington Smith's <em>The Curve of the Bridge</em> (1928-29), <em>The Lacquer</em> <em>Room</em> (1936) and <em>The Sock Knitter</em> (1915) and the Margaret Prestons. There was also a small group of Martin Sharp's brilliant posters on the wall, including<em> Mr Tambourine Man</em>, from about 1967.<br />
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I had a fabulous time - Sydney is a great place for a flying visit!<br />
<br />pennypeckhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04241288787284369143noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937541827328645804.post-7945663673558652922014-01-12T02:30:00.001-08:002014-01-15T15:28:12.346-08:00New Year (almost!) daily practiceI'm beginning the new year with a commitment to try to maintain an (almost) daily practice. I was motivate by reading back over the last year or so of <a href="http://missouribendstudio.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/the-daily-practice-of-2013.html" target="_blank">the Missouri Bend Studio blog</a>, particularly her discussion of daily rituals and practice, which I found extremely admirable - something to work toward. As well as talking to a friend who resolved to take one photo a day. I wonder how she's going. Less that two weeks in and I've already decided that attempting a very quick (bad) drawing late at night in order to fulfil a daily drawing commitment was really a bit pointless. So, I've decided that I will continue to attempt a daily practice, while allowing myself days off if that's how it works out. Inspired by some of Missouri Bend's work, I started with small collages, as I had also been messing about with one or two during the quiet days between Christmas and the New Year. This one if from then.<br />
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Then last Sunday I went to Drop By Drawing at the National Gallery of Victoria, where two or three hundred people sat in the 18th Century European galleries and drew, under the guidance of artist Minna Gilligan. It was good fun and I particularly enjoyed the 'blind contour drawing with development' exercise and produced this</div>
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So then I pulled out my long-neglected copy of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain and thought that it might be a good basis for my daily drawings...blind contours really take the pressure off. I have become very tight and in fact somewhat terrified of drawing. Too tense to put pencil to paper. So,</div>
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and an Agapanthus flower in bud, both ways - blind<br />
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Feeling much happier!</div>
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pennypeckhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04241288787284369143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937541827328645804.post-11184770409900977102013-11-23T04:00:00.000-08:002013-11-25T02:39:56.995-08:00Wonder Room & The Forest of AmbiguityOver the past week I've finally caught a couple of exhibitions I've been very keen to see. My high expectations were well rewarded in both cases. <em>Wonder Room</em> at Maroondah Art Gallery is indeed <em>very</em> wonderful! The work of five artists - Heather Shimmen, Deborah Klein, Rona Green, Filomena Coppola and Paul Compton - are linked by the idea of the Wunderkammer, the precursor to museums as we know them. These were personal collections of bizarre and unusual objects, mostly from the natural world, but also including architectural artefacts and handcrafted objects, popular throughout Europe from the 16th until the 19th century. <br />
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While all the work in the exhibition deals with the strange and exotic in some way, there is great diversity in approach and outcome. This is particularly apparent in the case of Shimmen and Klein, who both work with images of hybrid creatures - part woman/part insect and both work (in part, at least) with linocut prints. Shimmen's insect women are borne out of the artist's interest in the way in which many people have a largely irrational fear of insects, together with her interest in folkloric stories from the Australian bush. A sense of looking back is reflected in her linocuts that mimic engravings from old books, their fragmentation and distortion adding to the powerful sense of the uncanny and stories obscured by history. Klein's very beautiful, jewel-like Insect Women and Moth Masks have an otherworldly beauty that conjures up the metamorphoses and transformations of fairytale and myth. See her Insect Women <a href="http://deborahklein.blogspot.com.au/2013/10/a-cabinet-of-insect-women.html" target="_blank">here.</a><br />
Paul Compton's highly detailed drawings of cabinets of curiosities playfully illustrate the range of possibilities to be found in the realm of the bizarre and the wonderful. I particularly enjoyed his teenage werewolf. His work demonstrates wonderful draughtsmanship and humour in equal prortions. I found Filomena Coppola's fleshy, hairy pastel drawings based upon the Australian Orchid - part animal, part vegetable - entrancingly beautiful - not at all as creepy as they might sound. It is a beautifully curated exhibition. Paul Compton's small ink and gouache drawings are never overpowered by larger works, such as Rona Green's feisty anamorphic animal portraits. At today's fascinating artists' talk it was pointed out that this, in fact, was a reflection of the Wunderkammer, where large objects were often displayed alongside smaller, more detailed artefacts and relics. Several of Deborah Klein's works are displayed in beautiful antique timber chests that also add to the aura of the Wunderkammer, as does the inclusion of Shimmen's own collection of curiosities. The work of each of the five artists is not exhibited in a discrete body but rather interspersed with each of the others. In the larger room a diagonal wall divides the room so that glimpses of each of the artists' work can be seen from any point. <br />
<a href="http://ronagreenblog.com/2013/10/09/wonder-room/" target="_blank">Here</a> are some images of Rona's work and the invitation with an image of Paul's work. The exhibition runs for another week and it is certainly worth the trip to Ringwood!<br />
<a href="http://www.artsinmaroondah.com.au/657.aspx" target="_blank">Wonder Room</a><br />
Elizabeth Banfield's <em>Forest of Ambiguity</em>, showing in the Little Window of Opportunity at Port Jackson Press is breathtaking in its finely detailed cutting (of both lino and paper) and attention to detail. For some time now Banfield's subject has been the Eucalypt forests near her home in the Dandenong ranges. The contradictory ideas of the contemplative peace of the towering Eucalypt forest and the danger of bushfires during the dry late summer months is explored through the simple motif of the variety of leaf shapes. Banfield's books and hanging pieces are beautifully executed, complex in their layering of texture, positive and negative and cut-out forms. More information <a href="http://www.portjacksonpress.com.au/exhib.php?ex=ls1000316pjpa12620006" target="_blank">here.</a><br />
In the main window of Port Jackson Press is a larger, very beautiful work, <em>The Afterimage</em>. <br />
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<em>Forest of Ambiguities</em> continues until 3 Decemberpennypeckhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04241288787284369143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937541827328645804.post-25000194438869852002013-08-15T20:58:00.001-07:002013-08-15T21:02:07.998-07:00Cats and Cohen - done and dusted!Well, my exhibition, <i>The Obsessions of a Woman of a Certain Age - Cohen & Cats</i>, is finished. I'm very happy...lots of people came to see it, had lots of positive feedback and even sales!! Thank you to everyone who came to the opening and throughout the exhibition.
Here are some images, for anyone who would have liked to see it...
These are from <em>A Taxonomy of (Art) Cats</em><br />
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pennypeckhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04241288787284369143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937541827328645804.post-68184835777487223522013-07-24T01:54:00.000-07:002013-07-24T01:54:43.938-07:00The Obsessions of a Woman of a Certain Age - Cohen & catsIt's been very quiet here lately because I've been frantically preparing for a solo exhibition at 69 Smith Street Gallery, Fitzroy. You might call it a self-indulgent celebration of things I love!<br />
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It's installed now, in a small gallery upstairs. There are two bodies of work - <em>A Taxonomy of (Art)</em> <em>Cats</em>, linocut prints of cats from Art History, organised into pseudo-scientific classifications; and <em>From the Book of L.C.</em>, a cluster of small paintings of fragments of Leonard Cohen poetry/lyrics in colourful abstract fields. The opening is on Saturday afternoon - do drop in if you are able!
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Here is a peek at the paintings. It's not actually that blue. I was SURE I had the camera on the right setting! pennypeckhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04241288787284369143noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937541827328645804.post-17986013192870099012013-05-23T18:00:00.000-07:002013-05-23T18:01:54.919-07:00Another print exchange print<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Earlier this year I decided to participate in three or four print exchanges. This is for the second one - a <a href="http://printpeople.ning.com/events/print-people-exchange-1-1?xg_source=activity" target="_blank">Print People exchange</a>. Relating to the series <em>A Taxonomy of (Art) Cats</em> (read more <a href="http://wordandimage-pennypeckham.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/work-in-progress-cats.html" target="_blank">here.</a>), for these small-print exchanges I've decided upon hybrids - cats that combine elements from two or three sources. The form of this one is based upon a work by an anonymous 19th century American printmaker working in a naïve style, with markings from a 17th century woodcut from an English publication, <em>The Historie of Four-footed Beastes</em>, compiled by Edward Topsall; and Barbara Hanrahan (Australian printmaker and writer.) I bought myself Annette Stewart's biography of Hanrahan for Mother's Day and it arrived in time for me to incorporate the dotted chest/underbody markings she often used. I hadn't realised that there were cats in a lot of her prints. If you don't know her work <a href="http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/?artist_id=hanrahan-barbara" target="_blank">here</a> is a link to some of her prints, held in the Art Gallery of NSW. (oh, now that I look, there are lots of cats!) I read most of her books, both novels and short stories, years ago...think I'll have to dip in again after the biography.<br />
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<br />pennypeckhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04241288787284369143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937541827328645804.post-82613893555749658142013-05-07T04:35:00.000-07:002013-05-07T04:47:05.289-07:00A Girl Waiting - BookArtObjectI have posted off the first three copies of my BookArtObject artist's book, <em>A Girl Waiting</em>. Six more to go! Details of the project can be seen <a href="http://bookartobject.blogspot.com.au/p/edition-four.html" target="_blank">here.</a><br />
So here are a few images...can't really show any more until I've sent off the others. Linocuts of places the girl might be waiting, obsessively typed reasons and the girl silhouettes all derive from Art History.<br />
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pennypeckhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04241288787284369143noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937541827328645804.post-57638299202266815592013-04-11T19:33:00.000-07:002013-04-11T23:01:06.716-07:00Jackie Gorring @ The Light Factory Gallery in ElthamJust a very quick post to share a couple of images from Jackie Gorring's exhibition <em>Balkote - zing up</em> <em>life</em>, which finishes this Sunday. Jackie is a printmaker who I first met six years ago at the 6th Australian Print Symposium at The National Gallery of Australia in Canberra. I ran into her again at a Print Council of Australia forum in Hobart a couple of years ago and discovered that she had moved from NSW to central Victoria. I have been fascinated by her inventive low-tech printmaking methods, many of which utilise found material such as polystyrene, packaging and pipe cleaners as matrix. <br />
This body of work was made during an artist residency at Ragini Art Village in Balkote, a few kilometres from Katmandu, late last year.<br />
For more information <a href="http://thelightfactorygallery.com.au/exhibitions/current-upcoming-exhibitions/jackie-gorring-printmaker/">http://thelightfactorygallery.com.au/exhibitions/current-upcoming-exhibitions/jackie-gorring-printmaker/</a><br />
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<br />pennypeckhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04241288787284369143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937541827328645804.post-195165644457509112013-03-13T00:28:00.001-07:002013-03-13T00:28:26.079-07:00Leftovers Just printed my edition of 5 x 7" linocut prints for the <a href="http://leftoversanyone.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/announcing-wingtip-press-2013-leftovers.html" target="_blank">Leftovers IV print exchange</a>. Has to be posted by Friday. Hoping it dries in time!<br />
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Some of the edition of<em> Egyptian goddess cat (with Raoul Dufy stripes).</em></div>
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pennypeckhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04241288787284369143noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937541827328645804.post-5215534643228998132013-02-28T04:08:00.002-08:002013-03-13T00:29:54.469-07:00My press is up and running!I bought a second hand etching press two or three months ago but it's taken me all this time to clear a space to set it up to work in. Finally there!! There's barely enough room here, but works for the time being.<br />
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I have been working away slowly this year with not a great deal to show - cutting lino plates for my artist's book for <a href="http://bookartobject.blogspot.com.au/p/edition-four.html" target="_blank">BAO Edition 4</a>, <em>A girl waiting</em>. Now the press is up and running I've started printing them. These are some of the places the girl might be waiting. The girl and her reason for waiting to come.<br />
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I think I'm going to love having my own press!pennypeckhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04241288787284369143noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937541827328645804.post-31881070698925679562013-01-10T18:47:00.000-08:002013-01-10T18:47:19.395-08:00First post for the year!When I've left it so long between posts, it becomes more and more difficult to do so.... Will I start with all my excuses...? Not, this time. So, I'll just wish all my bloggy friends a happy, productive and fulfilling 2013.<br />
Haven't made much progress on work to show you, although I have seen a few exhibitions about which I could have written. I enjoyed <a href="http://elizabethbanfield.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/coalescence-solo-show-ends-tomorrow.html" target="_blank">Elizabeth Banfield's solo exhibition at red gallery</a>, and actually bought a print. Very happy to have it! Her work is very beautiful. <br />
Also enjoyed <a href="http://handheldgallery.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">BAZE at Handheld Gallery</a> which has work by a number of you. The gallery reopens next Wednesday, so you could pop in if you are in Melbourne, and catch the end of this - a fabulous exhibition of zines and artist's books.<br />
I should also mention the highlight of my recent exhibition viewing experiences. I'm not sure whether I've mentioned before that I work in Visitor Services at Heide Museum of Modern Art. I am <i>so</i> loving soaking up the fabulous Louise Bourgeois exhibitions - Late Works and Louise Bourgeois and Australian Artists - lots of fabric sculptures, fabric drawings, works on paper and the huge spider. Perhaps because I'm a printmaker and artist who loves working with text, my favourite work is a suite of prints called <em>What is the shape of this problem?</em> - nine diptychs, letterpress text panels paired with abstract lithographs, intense doodling/patterning (like I do when I'm on the phone). 'The telephone call from the slammer' is the panel that still makes me wobbly just to think about. The first time I stood in front of the work I got very wobbly indeed! It's intensely emotive, for me, and quite beautiful. Text fragments from 'The papillion, the ray of hope' and 'To unravel a torment you must begin somewhere' to 'The hour is devoted to revenge'...all very powerful and moving. The exhibitions are highly recommended!<br />
And just so as this post is not all text here are a couple of proofs of prints for my <a href="http://bookartobject.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">BAO</a> book, which is <em>very</em> much a work in progress. I am making a book titled <i>A girl waiting</i>. These are places that a girl might be waiting.... A tram stop in High Street, Northcote,<br />
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