Jacqueline Aust & Mark Graver RE- March 25 – May 7
New works from award winning Kerikeri artist printmakers Jacqueline Aust & Mark Graver RE.
Jacqueline Aust – Self Portrait Series I – Collage- 730 x 1200mm
Jacqueline studied at Auckland University (Master of Arts 2011) and has shown widely in NZ & Australia and is a member of the Print Council Aotearoa New Zealand (PCANZ). Her work is held in public collections in both countries. Her practice is a response to place, or places, in time; the subject often being the effect that physical and ideological structures have on our relationship with the natural environment.
Jacqueline Aust – Urban I – Collagraph – 290 x 420mm
Jacqueline Aust – Field Study I – Collagraph and Drypoint Collage – 200 x 450mm
Mark Graver RE
Mark is the founder of the Wharepuke Print Studio and author of Non-Toxic Printmaking (2011, A&C Black, London). He studied Fine Art BA (Hons) at Leeds Polytechnic and MA Printmaking at Camberwell College of Arts, London.
Mark’s new prints shown here were based around small corals photographed in Niue.
Mark is an elected full fellow (RE) of The Royal Society of Painter Printmakers, (one of only 100 in the world), a committee member of Prism Print International and an Honorary Member of the PCANZ. His work is held in many international public collections such as the V&A Museum, London, The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK, and in Australia, China, Thailand, NZ, USA, Mexico, Japan, Malaysia, Taiwan, South Africa and Europe.
CORALS & AVATELE SERIES
Small thumb sized corals found in Niue immediately showed their graphic potential. The patterns, forms, shapes washed from the reef.
Photographed and left in situ, objects and time fixed. The substantially enlarged images were manipulated and layered to create an on-going series of prints, a record of place and time
Mark Graver – Coral II – Digital pigment print – 910 x 470mm – edition of 10
Mark Graver – Coral Series – Digital pigment prints – 910 x 470mm
AVATELE SERIES
Mark Graver – Avatele Series – Photopolymer Etchings on copper – plate size 280 x 210mm