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HAND-CRAFTED ARTSource: THE SUNDAY MAIL, BRISBANEby RONNIE GIRDHAM 25 JULY 2010 Leading artists - including Archibald winner Garry Shead - have a new expo of limited edition prints, writes Ronnie Girdham
ART aficionados are warming to the resurgence in printmaking, with artists who are passionate about their works, etching them on to plates to create a high-quality reproduction of their images.
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Investing in Prints
COLLECTING PRINTSSource: Essayby Joanna Capon 12 October, 2009
"Collecting prints has a long and thriving history which began almost immediately after wood-block, engraved and etched prints became part of the artist's repertoire in fifteenth century Europe. They quickly attracted art collectors and remain an integral part of art collections as art connoisseurs have continued to add new prints to their collections. Some, like one of the earliest collectors Ferdinand Columbus (1488-1539), even restrict their collections to prints alone.
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Artist Features
Levitação / LevitationSource: Richardmartinart.com.auby Jonathan Turner, the award-winning Rome-based art critic and curator November 2009 Craig Ruddy captures the sharp light of Rio de
Janeiro as it is reflected by the rippling sea, bouncing off the white sands to
create a distinctive, mauve haze. The shards of light overlap and fragment, as
though refracted by panes of glass, and the imagery in Ruddy's Levitation
series is further affected by the glass sheets superimposed over his most
recent paintings. Outlines of athletic figures immersed in water, tumbling in
the frothy surf and leaping on the beach sometimes resemble the shimmering
profiles of a mirage. The horizon shifts. Shadows seem to appear and disappear,
but in fact, they really do.
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About Berkeley Editions
Prints ExplainedSource: Wentwork Courier5th July 2006 "We have found that people are really interested in learning more about
printmaking and how limited editions are produced and why they may
increase in value", Robyn Berkeley of Berkeley Editions said. |
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Press Releases
Craig Ruddy - Exciting new directionSource: Press Releaseby Janise Beaumont October 2008 Robyn Berkeley of Berkeley Editions is delighted to announce three
spectacular new releases, in conjunction with Archibald Prize winner,
Craig Ruddy, now widely-regarded as one or Australia’s hottest artists. The three images, titled ‘Embers’, ‘Nocturnal Flower’ and ‘Dawn Embrace’, are his first-ever etchings. As Craig explains it, they depict the human form and the human spirit, and their journey in connection with the landscape.
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Print Making
The Production Of Garry Shead’s 2005 ReleasesSource: Basil Hall Editionsby Basil Hall October 2005 In 1988, Garry Shead worked with Sydney Master Printer Diana Davidson
to produce a suite of 5 etchings known as the “Outback ballad” Suite.
These sugar-lift and aquatint works were printed in one colour in small
editions of 25. The zinc plates were then stored in Sydney until 2005,
when Robyn Berkeley of Berkeley Editions suggested Garry make colour
versions of the earlier etchings using the original plates.
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