13 March – 13 April
Artists from the Tasmanian print collective nowhereprint
Damon Bird, Tony Curran, Mindy Doré, Grace Gladdish, Jan Hogan, Emma Magnusson-Reid, Olivia Moroney, Helen Mueller, Natasha Rowell, Michael Schlitz, Hope Smith, Melissa Smith
The artist collective ‘nowhereprint’ represents a group of contemporary artists working in lutruwita/Tasmania.
The name for ‘nowhereprint’ is borrowed from the Tasmanian printmaker Bea Maddock who played with these words in her 1974 prints now-here and no-where. The artists involved in this collective range from emerging to established in their practice, working in a range of printmaking techniques and approaches.
The ‘nowhere’ artists acknowledge the significance of living and making on Iutruwita/Tasmania, where Palawa people tended the land through millennia of inhabitation. This island place generates the context from which each artist questions personal and political, mythological and narrative connections. Drawing upon their own individual and collective relations to this island, these artists are inspired by Iutruwita/Tasmania’s unique ecosystems and cultural histories. The prints in this exhibition represent each artist’s interpretation of these themes.