My works are complex multi block woodblock prints on hand made 100% Kozo paper. These works have been produced from 30 - 40 individual carved blocks often working across 2 panels of paper.  The blocks when inked are printed with exacting registration,  each colour change is a new block creating the impact of translucent colours. 

The work reflects light and shade in nature and the experience of the silence of a space, with a minimalism and limited colour scheme evoking a sereneness and contemplation in the landscape. 

I enjoy the practice of a very traditional 16th Century Japanese woodblock printing techniques, still practiced in Japan today and referred to as Mokuhanga, I continue the challenge of bringing it into the 21st century.  My contemporary application of this medium remains non-toxic and relies on all blocks to be hand printed with a baren.

Many works in this exhibition Defining Shapes- Creating Edges reflect the colour schemes used in the late 19th Century works of Yoshitoshi from the One Hundred Aspects of the Moon series.

Created in response to the gallery’s site, Shifting Spaces explores how simple geometric patterns transform a space and create new perspectives. Screen-printed works on paper and murals respond to each other, immersing the viewer in a dynamic and contemplative environment. Drawing on architecture and principle of repetition, the installation plays with notions of dimensionality, in-between space and movement.

Marilou Chagnaud is a Canberra based artist. Her practice spans printmaking, sculpture and site responsive installation. Chagnaud graduated with a Master of Art from the Ecole Superieure d’Art d’Axien-Procence (2008) and went on to complete a Diploma of Textile Design in Montreal (2015). Her work combines a minimal aesthetic with delicate material such as paper and textile to explore movement, perception and spatiality. She has exhibited in solo and group exihibitions including as ANCA (2020), Canberra Museum and Gallery (2018), Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre (2018) and ANU SOAD Gallery (2017).

NATIONAL GRADUATE ONLINE EXHIBITION

This curated online exhibition will showcase the work of twenty-four emerging printmedia graduates from across Australia and New Zealand.

Olivia Baker  |  Fergus Berney-Gibson  |  Zoe Bilston |  Siti Rahayu Binte Buang  |  Sanne Carroll | Dana Cavanagh  |  Leah Clarke  |  Isabella Darcy  |  Madelaine Dufficy  |  Eleanor Franks  | Kathleen Formoso | Shanti Gelmi   |  Eliza Gwynne  |  Sidonie Hall-Jordan  |  Tara Hastie   | Chalk Hook | Hemi Hosking  | Cat Lawrance  |  Melodie Liu  |  Maisie Robinson  | Isabella Rossaro  | Catherine Schultz  |  Alex Smith | Kate Webster  |  Claire Welch  |  Yu Zhao

Cicada Press was established in 2004, by its director Michael Kempson at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Art & Design in Sydney Australia, as a strategy devised to facilitate student engagement with fine art printmaking practice. Each semester internationally respected artists join a course to explore the relationships of a custom-printing studio. Preferring to use informal processes and an open dialogue in this collaborative working relationship, UNSW Art & Design through Cicada Press, seeks to reinforce mutual respect in the act of making through the lived experience of learning.

A survey exhibition of fine art prints by artist’s who have worked with Cicada Press. Featuring works by Vernon Ah Kee, Tony Albert, Michael Callaghan, Kevin Connor, Elisabeth Cummings, Nici Cumpston, Tony Curran, Fiona Hall, Alan Jones, Julie Gough, Nicholas Harding, Vanessa Inkamala, Euan Macleod, Michael Kempson, Tilau Nangala, Gregory O’Brien, Chris O’Doherty aka Reg Mombassa, Rodney Pople, Ryan Presley, John Pule, Reko Rennie, Mervyn Rubuntja, Vipoo Srivilasa, Judy Watson, Marshall Weber, Dame Robin White, Raymond Zada, Adeel uz Zafar

Kay Abude (Aus), Antonia Aitken (Aus), Surya Bajracharya (Aus), Marcin Bialis (Poland), Darren Bryant (Aus), Marilou Chagnaud (France/Aus), Kyle Chaput (USA), Erica Chung (Singapore), Mehdi Darvishi (Iran), Agata Derda (Canada), Olesya Dzhurayeva (Ukraine), Dianne Fogwell (Aus), David Frazer (Aus), Silvi Glattauer (Aus), Robert Hague (Aus), Rew Hanks (Aus), Nicola Hooper (Aus), Kyoko Imazu (Japan/Aus), Marketa Kemp (Aus), Theo Kontaxis (Greece), Damon Kowarsky (Aus), Natalia Kwiatkowska (Poland), David Nixon (Aus), Arata Nojima (Japan), Glenda Orr (Aus), Jim Pavlidis (Aus), Sumi Perera (UK), Karol Pomykala (Poland), Belinda Reid (Aus), Luisa Romeo (Aus), Annika Romeyn (Aus), Qiaoyi Shi (USA), Elmari Steyn (Aus), Anna Trojanowska (Poland), Jared Wickware (USA), Cleo Wilkinson (Aus), Katy Woodroffe (Aus).

MEGALO INTERNATIONAL PRINT PRIZE

EXHIBITION DATES
16 FEBRUARY – 6 APRIL 2019
Opens: 6pm Thurs 21 February

Megalo is proud to present the very first Megalo International Print Prize Exhibition. The calibre of entries received in 2018 was exceptional leaving a difficult and long task for our panellists, Dr Jane Kinsman, Basil Hall and Ingeborg Hansen. 37 works were selected as finalists from a pool of over 360 entries from Australia and around the world. Entries were submitted by artists in 31 countries.

The Megalo International Print Prize Awards

1st Prize is $10,000

2nd Prize is $5,000

People's Choice $1,000

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Lerida Estate Acquisitive Prize $2500

Voting for the People's choice award open on 16 February.

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The Award announcements will be made on Friday 15 March

PRESS VS SCREEN
A MEGALO MEMBERS SHOW

Exhibition Opening 6PM
THURSDAY 29 NOVEMBER 2018

EXHIBITION DATES: 
24 NOVEMBER - 14 DECEMBER 2018
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‘Press vs Screen’ is the final Megalo exhibition for 2018. Megalo Members submit prints that they have produced in either the Press or Screen studios at Megalo, during 2018. The studio that submits the most entries will be declared the winner. It is always wonderful to see the array of styles and techniques in this unique annual show. It’s also a great opportunity to gather our member’s and friends together to celebrate another fantastic year in printmaking, before the Christmas break close.

ENTRIES DUE: FRI 15TH NOVEMBER
ENTRY FEE: $20 per member (up to 4 works)
ENTRY FORMS AVAILABLE AT THE MEGALO OFFICE or Send a request to info@megalo.org and we’ll send a pdf version.
PLEASE NOTE: ONLY CURRENT MEGALO MEMBERS ARE ELIGIBLE TO SUBMIT WORK

MATERIAL FEELING
NEGATIVE PRESS

EXHIBITION DATES  
27 October - 17 November 2018
EXHIBITION OPENING
2PM Saturday 27 October

An exhibition featuring works produced in collaboration with Negative Press.
Negative Press is a publisher of limited edition prints and artists' books by contemporary Australian artists. Negative Press aim to make projects that extend the discourse between contemporary art and printed matter.

WE ARE LOST
CAREN FLORANCE

29 SEPTEMBER - 20 OCTOBER

OPENING 6PM
THURSDAY 4 OCTOBER

ARTIST TALK
SATURDAY 20 OCTOBER

Sitting within the overlaps of text art and visual poetry, these new works by Caren Florance are inspired by Matthew Kirchenbaum’s ideas on the materiality of digital media, where something that seems impenetrable and ‘lost’ can be painstakingly translated by forensic means. ‘We are lost’ is a series of gestural, abstracted translations of words and phrases used in contemporary attacks on women, communications that seem immaterial and fleeting on page and screen but sink deep into the psyche. Using printmaking to transmit these words without re-seeding their message is a cathartic act of disruption. The results seem impenetrable, but they follow the physical movements of traditional printing systems and so the texts can, with careful attention, be restored if desired. Or not: some things are better lost.

FROM SMALL THINGS BIG THINGS GROW

SA Adair, Elaine Camlin, Ellen Gunner, Michelle Hallinan, Megan Hinton, Nina Juniper, Pia Larsen, Peter McLean, Deborah Metz, Barbara Nell, Jemima Parker + Kate Vassallo

EXHIBITION DATES: 
1 - 22 September 2018
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From small things, big things grow is an exhibition which will be held across two locations: Megalo, Kingston and GOST, Watson. Each of the artists will be exhibiting works - big and small - at each venue concurrently.

OPENING EVENT
4-6pm Saturday 1 September
Gallery of Small Things
27 Wade Street, Watson ACT

CLOSING EVENT
2pm Saturday 22 September
Megalo Print Studio + Gallery
21 Wentworth Avenue, Kingston ACT

GOST (Gallery of Small Things) holds one group show a year and showcases a visual arts sector. In 2017, it was Ceramics and in 2018, it's Printmaking. The GOST gallery is less than 6 metres' squared and less than 6 months old making it Canberra's tiniest + newest gallery. Megalo gallery is nearly 3 times the size and has a rich history as Canberra's original home of print making with its studios and workshops providing 38 years of experience to the community and beyond.

CONNECTIONS
PART ONE

THURSDAY 9 AUGUST 2018
6PM  Exhibition Opening  

UK Frederick, Ingeborg Hansen, Nicci Haynes, Anna Madeleine and Erica Seccombe

EXHIBITION DATES: 
4 - 25 AUGUST 2018
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Connections: Part One

This exhibition of work is an exploration of Art and Science. It brings together 5 artists: UK Frederick; Ingeborg Hansen; Nicci Haynes; Anna Madeleine; and Erica Seccombe, who are at the beginning of new relationships and collaborations with scientific researchers. The work created for this exhibition is the experimental result of new conversations and observations, as artists and scientists consider how each searches for new understandings of the world around us. 

Exploring these collaborations through a range of printmedia, this exhibition is Part One in building meaningful relationships through new experimental work.

Collaborative partners include: 

Stuart Ramsden, ANU VizLab, National Computational Infrastructure

Dr. Brad Tucker from the ANU Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Mt Stromlo

Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO

Dr Julia Miller at ANU’s ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language

The ARC Centre for All-Sky Astronomy in 3-Dimensions (ASTRO3D); The National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (CPAS), ANU

Connections: Part Two will take place in 2019 to coincide with Science week and will feature an exhibition, a series of collaborative talks and demonstrations across the fields of Art and Science.

SURYA BAJRACHARYA
PASSENGER

THURSDAY 12 JULY 2018
6PM  Exhibition Opening  
To be opened by ANU Emeritus Fellow Patsy Payne

EXHIBITION DATES: 
7 - 28 July 2018
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Surya Bajracharya’s Passenger comprises two individual bodies of work– a series of lithographs, and a series of monotypes – created in parallel and in response to the same subject. The lithographs depict snatches of scenery and features of the landscape; the monotypes are more elusive, all light and shade, push and pull, vastness and obscurity. The lithographs, with their exacting, intricate mark-making, seem to disintegrate a moment travelled in time while pulling it into myopic focus. The monotypes project – and elicit – an emotive response. Side by side in diptychs they resonate and reflect, form a rhythm and pulse. Two portraits, monotypes of the artist’s children, like pin-drops or anchors, are deeply personal markers of the artist in these visual documents of an otherwise unspecified journey.
Bajracharya’s duplicity of approach presents what is seen in real terms, as well as what is felt and can be taken with us, to capture the feeling of being pulled along through life, aware that the path is beyond your control. Ultimately what we see is processed through the lens of individual experience and a reflection of inner lives – the metaphoric peaks and horizons, skeleton branches and billowing cloud of places real or imagined, familiar or unknown. - Yolande Norris, 2018

COLBY COUNTRY
Join us for the opening event
6PM THURS 14 JUNE 2018
21 Wentworth Avenue, Kingston
EXHIBITION DATES:
9 - 30 JUNE 2018

Colby Country presents an investigation and response to the closure of the legendary Colby Poster Printing Company, Los Angeles U.S.A.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Wendy Murray is a Sydney-based artist and arts educator. Her artworks are informed by her knowledge of street art and graffiti and her interest in psycho-geography and the concept of the derive, or unplanned journey.

ABOUT THE PROJECT

Established by Herbert Lee Colby in 1948, the Colby Poster Printing Company (Colby) operated as a three-union, family print shop until 2012. While visiting The International Printing Museum, Carson, CA, USA in 2017, I stumbled across the Colby archive. This discovery set about an intense research period of documentation, interviews, archive and field research to establish the impact of Colby posters on popular culture. It was a privilege to work with the Colby wood type, image blocks and posters at The International Printing Museum during the summer of 2018.

Special thanks to: Mark Barbour (director) The International Printing Museum, Mike Powe, Glenn Hinman, the Colby Poster Printing Company, Pasadena City College, Carol Wells, Center for the Study of Political Graphics and Earl Newman.

POSTCARD: A LOST ART
Please join us for the opening event
6PM THURSDAY 17 MAY 2018
at 21 Wentworth Avenue, Kingston ACT

EXHIBITION DATES: 12 MAY - 2 JUNE 2018

This year Megalo salutes the humble pictorial postcard. For over 150 years these simple cards have been posted back and forth across the globe. The Postcard has delivered messages of hope, love, happiness, humour, sorrow - good news and bad. Many postcards were originally created through print mediums such as woodcut and lithography + then later screen prints.

ENGAGE II
COMMUNITY PRINTING

SATURDAY 5 MAY 2018
2PM  Exhibition Opening  
at 21 Wentworth Avenue, Kingston ACT

with guest speakers:
Mr Gordon Ramsay MLA, Minister for the Arts and Community Events and Ms Stephanie Nott, Black Mountain School

EXHIBITION DATES: 
14 APRIL- 5 MAY 2018

Works by Archie, Camryn, Finnian, Lateasha and Matty from Black Mountain School in a project funded by Aspen Medical and facilitated by Megalo.

MEGAN HINTON
UNITED CONSTRUCTS 

THURSDAY 22 MARCH 2018
6PM  Exhibition Opening  

EXHIBITION DATES: 
17 MARCH- 10 March 2018

This exhibition has been supported by the Capital Arts' Patron's Organisation.

United Constructs is a new series of etchings and screen printed works by Canberra artist and designer Megan Hinton. Influenced by the Bauhaus design movement, Russian Constructivism and abstraction – it takes inspiration from our built environment, carefully dissecting each segment, line and shape to create newly constructed compositions of repurposed architectural forms.
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Megan Hinton is an Canberra based artist and designer working with printmaking, textile design, painting and collaborative projects. Her works explore the interaction of colour and form, with her recent work strongly influenced by geometric abstraction, constructivism and Bauhaus textiles.

Megan also produces a range of screen printed scarves, homewares and furniture products under the label Megan Jackson. She has worked on a range of commissioned projects across graphic design, illustration and textile design.

TONY AMENEIRO
HEAD OVER HEAD

THURSDAY 15 FEBRUARY 2018 
6PM  Exhibition Opening  
Opened by Alison Alder, Head of Printmedia + Drawing, ANU School of Art and Design

SATURDAY 10 MARCH 2018 
2PM Artist Talk
EXHIBITION DATES: 
15 February - 10 March 2018 

TONY AMENEIRO is a Mittagong based artist-printmaker who has a career in the arts spanning over 30 years. Head over Head exhibition is based around a research drawing project he carried out at the JT Wilson and Shellshear Museums at Sydney University, both of which are teaching museums within the Medical Faculty. Images of the deceased are combined with images from the life drawing studio as the exhibition explores issues around mortality and regeneration. Ameneiro visually interrogates existential quandaries regarding humanity in an attempt to reconcile universal questions and provide a window on our humanity.

Exhibition review by Sasha Grishin HERE.
Exhibition review by Caren Florance HERE.

PRESS VS SCREEN         

A MEGALO MEMBERS SHOW
18 NOVEMBER - 9 DECEMBER 2017

EXHIBITION OPENING: 
6pm Thursday 23 November 2017
EXHIBITION DATES: 
Saturday 18 November - Saturday 9 December 2017

JAMES LIEUTENANT + KATE VASSALLO - OLD EAGLE 

THURSDAY 19 OCTOBER 2017
6PM  Exhibition Opening  

EXHIBITION DATES: 
19 October -  11 November 2017  

Vassallo + Lieutenant have worked collaboratively together since 2013 while sustaining their own individual art practices. At the heart of their collaboration, and this exhibition, is an interrogation of art making itself. Vassallo and Lieutenant highlight the act of making, labour, rules, hierarchies and the restrictions of the art world, including the act of collaboration. Over the last 7 years, James Lieutenant has been individually experimenting, constructing and perfecting a his unique screen-print process. Using layering to build up a foggy haze of colour, each screen-print is a heavily laboured object. The surface of his artworks becomes crucial to their reading. The materiality is often unclear, his paintings look like screen-prints and his screen-prints look like paintings.

Kate Vassallo’s individual artworks explore themes of optics, repetition, scientific/mathematical imagery and artistic process. Whether working with photography, drawing, video or installation, her practice always returns to process-orientated repetition. Old Eagle marks the first time Vassallo has exhibited screen-printed artworks.

IN RESIDENCE '16

S.A. Adair (ACT), Surya Bajracharya (ACT) Geoff Farquar-Still (ACT), Ellis Hutch (ACT) + Jessica Anderson (USA), Bruno Vandenberghe (Belgium), Trent Walter (VIC)

THURSDAY 19 OCTOBER 2017
6PM  Exhibition Opening  
EXHIBITION DATES: 
26 August -  16 September 2017

IN RESIDENCE '16 is an exhibition showcasing work produced by the 2016 Megalo artists-in-residence. The exhibition includes works completed during the residency and works developed since that time.

Each year Megalo Print Studio + Gallery selects three local, one national
and one international artist to undertake a residency in our professional printmaking studios. Each artist is awarded four to six weeks studio access, a living and materials stipend and accommodation (national, international).

Megalo’s highly competitive artist-in-residence program allows artist’s the time, studio equipment and access to technical expertise to realise new projects and experiment with printmaking techniques.

JIMMY LANGER 
RETROGRADE

THURSDAY 3 AUGUST 2017
5.30PM Artist Talk
6.30PM  Exhibition Opening  

EXHIBITION DATES: 
29 July -  19 August 2017  

RETROGRADE is an exhibition of new work by Melbourne based artist JImmy Langer. This dynamic exhibition has come about as a direct result of a four-week residency undertaken at Megalo in June this year, and in many ways represents the culmination of his recent practice that has delved tentatively into a digital method. Langer combines screen prints on paper and transparent acrylic sheets to form solid, tangible surfaces, manifesting the information he has generated in labourous digital reproduction and pixel manipulation. 

The term ‘retrograde’ implies not so much a reversal as a turning-back on itself. Though I have manifested this abstractly, I have used the idea of retrograde movement to show that things can appear to the eye to be turning and diverting, when in fact it is an illusion of the dual orbits of the observer, the orbiter, and the thing that both are orbiting. All things that are illusory but measurable. Observable hidden incidents creating a whole. Things move in a way that seems counter intuitive and and skewiff, but at some level there is a theoretic truth that captures the reasons for the illusion.

The digital origins of these prints is the product of a method that attempts to navigate and dismember the information that is embedded within an image. These are stimulated by environments, memory and iconography, and lend themselves to feelings of entropy and time.

CLARE JACKSON 
THIS IS NOT A PLACE

THURSDAY 6 JULY 2017
6PM  Exhibition Opening 

EXHIBITION DATES: 
1 -  22 July 2017  

Clare Jackson is a Canberra based visual artist working across mediums including printmaking, drawing and ceramics. ‘This is not a place’ is a collection of works inspired by culmination of recent artist residencies in Tartu, Estonia and Woy Woy Bay, NSW. 

Jackson’s practice is intrinsically linked to her interest in time, memory and the traces they leave on our surroundings. Each unfolding moment in time is a unique experience that imparts itself on us, while simultaneously resisting any attempt to grasp it. While there is continuity to these elements, they are also ever changing.

In 'This is not a place' Jackson explores these traces through intaglio printmaking techniques such as aquatint. She creates sophisticated pictorial landscapes of personal symbolic spaces such as architectural details, coastal suburbia at night and even space capsules landing on earth. Each image incorporates some element of her surroundings into a lexicon of mark making which acts as a narrative that is both fleeting and tangible. Her prints become the record of her attempts to communicate a personal history and the ways in which we experience place.

Read Jackson's IMPRINT interview here.

EXQUISITE CORPSE
MEMBERS SHOW

SATURDAY 17 JUNE 2017
2PM  Exhibition Opening  

EXHIBITION DATES: 
3 -  24 June 2017
 

A Megalo Members exhibition.
EXQUISITE CORPSE is a method by which a collection of works or images is collectively assembled. Each collaborator adds to the sequence by following a rule of composition.

ARONE MEEKS 
BEYOND THE BLUE: UNBROKEN

THURSDAY 11 MAY 2017
5.30PM Artist Talk
6.30PM  Exhibition Opening  

EXHIBITION DATES: 
6 -  27 May 2017  

Arone Meeks 'Beyond the Blue: Unbroken' is the culmination of a six week artist residency at Megalo Print Studio + Gallery generously supported by artsACT through their arts residency funding. During this residency Meeks has worked closely with the Megalo staff to produce a new suite of etchings and lithographs. The exhibition also includes a selection of monoprints, relief prints, lithographs and etchings produced throughout his career.

Arone Meeks is a kuku Midigi man currently based in Cairns. He creates works that speak to us of cross cultural connection, relationships, gender, traditional and modern spirituality and his environment. His extensive accomplishments achieved through study, residencies, commissions, community arts and public art certainly contribute to an outstanding career to date, which will only continue to grow given his passion and determination. His works are a testament not only to his skills and talents as a painter, sculptor and printmaker, but also to his wonderful sense for colour and design that allows his work to shine. Arone has also worked extensively in indigenous Sexual Health and in remote communities.

Read The Canberra Times review here.

ERICA SECCOMBE 
THE LADY BOTANIST

THURSDAY 6 APRIL 2017
6PM  Exhibition Opening  

EXHIBITION DATES: 
1 -  29 April 2017  

Canberra Times exhibition review