Check out some happy snaps from our recent trip to Mildura - we visited The Art Vault, enjoyed a crit session with local artists and had lots of fun!

Jarron Macey with PCA Committee

Karen Wilgar showing us her prints

Mildura artist Anne McMaster discussing her work with PCA Committee

Committee assessment panel

PCA Committee with host Julie Chambers @ The Art Vault

SS PCA on the Murray, Mildura, July 2010

Call for Papers and Proposals

Monash University invites artists, curators, print studios, writers, academics, collectors, students and industry to participate in IMPACT 7: Intersections & Counterpoints.

We are calling for:


• Papers and themed panels
 - individuals and groups (e.g. print workshops, universities, artists) can submit a proposal to present a conference paper, or to convene and chair a panel discussion centred around a theme of their choosing. The duration of each paper presentation and session will be advised upon notification of acceptance.
• Individual and Group Exhibitions 
(At Monash University). If you have works that you would like to put forward as part of the curated exhibition component of the conference, then submit a proposal for consideration by the Steering Committee. If your submission is accepted, the works will be exhibited within the Faculty of Art and Design building together with all other approved submissions. Upon notification of acceptance, you will be advised whether you need to amend your proposal to fit your allocated space. Exhibition period is for the duration of the conference only.

• Individual and Group Exhibitions in Victoria (via the Print Council of Australia). 
If you have an exhibition that you would like to put forward as part of the broader component of the IMPACT agenda, then submit a proposal for consideration for inclusion in the "Month of Prints" promotional material (being coordinated by the PCA). All submissions from Victorian artists and venues will be considered for inclusion if they are substantially print based. Your proposal must include artists and mediums, venue and locations and at least one image. Exhibition period is for at least the duration of the conference and ideally will be the two weeks before and two weeks after (12 Sept - 10 Oct).
• Academic Poster Presentations. 
This section is an informally grouped presentation in a designated room, and is literally a poster produced by you that is pinned up on the wall behind a small table, which promotes your particular research project. You then stand next to it and speak about the work, as it is described in an abbreviated form in the poster, to whomever walks by and is interested. You would probably have your laptop with you to show visuals. This is not a curated event. Duration of this event is to be confirmed.

• The Open Portfolio section is the same informal group set-up as the Academic Poster Presentation. However, instead of a poster, presenters must brought along a portfolio of their work for visitors to flip through, or a laptop that displays their images. It provides an overview of someone's artistic oeuvre and skill rather than focussed one specific research project. Again, you will need to be there with your folio/laptop to speak to people as they wander by. This is not a curated event. Duration of this event is to be confirmed.

• Master Classes and Workshops organised by the Print Council of Australia, in association with Monash University. For international conference delegates who are interested in sharing their expertise and artist practice, we can provide the opportunity for you to do this as well as seeing Australia's beautiful countryside. Below is a list of arts venues interested in hosting master classes and workshops throughout the State of Victoria before and after the conference days:

  Australian Print Workshops, Fitzroy
  Arc Yinnar, Gippsland Artery Co Op
  Castlemaine Studios (Private Studios)
  Chisholm Tafe, Frankston
  East Gippsland Aboriginal Arts, Bairnsdale
  Elke's Books, Hurstbridge
  Firestation Print Studio*, Armadale
  Geelong Gallery, Geelong
  Hunt Club Community Arts Centre, Deer Park
  Lancaster Press, Brooklyn
  La Trobe University, Bendigo & Bundoora
  Maroondah Art Gallery, Ringwood
  Victoria University, Melbourne
  Walker St Gallery, Dandenong
  
• Demonstrations and Workshops incorporating or related to printing from any discipline (with an emphasis on new and unusual techniques) will be open to the public and held throughout the conference period on campus. These will be listed on the website in due course.

For further information on the conference theme and topics, and submission guidelines and deadlines, please refer to www.impact7.org.au or for Print Council of Australia adminpca@netspace.net.au.

(Please RSVP if you are planning to attend any of the events listed below as we need to know numbers)

FRIDAY 10 SEP - ALL FREE!!

1.00-2.00 – Artist talk and light lunch – Collective Traces – Selected Works 2004–2009 by Melissa Smith (collagraph prints and lino cuts) 146 ArtSpace at Arts Tasmania, 146 Elizabeth Street, Hobart

2.30-3.30 - Guided Tour of ESSENCE: Contemporary Australian Prints & Drawings with Sue Backhouse, Exhibition Curator & Senior Curator of Art Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery.
RSVP to Print Council of Australia - email – adminpca@netspace.net.au

4.00-5.00 - Guided Tour - History and Art Tour at the Henry Jones Art Hotel.
RSVP to Print Council of Australia - email – adminpca@netspace.net.au

6.00-7.30 - Opening of 2010 PCA Print Commission prints at Handmark Gallery.
RSVP to HANDMARK GALLERY - email – info@handmarkgallery.com

SATURDAY 11 SEP

The forum will be addressing arts practice issues in the creative and commercial world.
Printmaking Forum – Dechaineaux Lecture Theatre, Tasmania School of Art, Hunter Street, Hobart Hosted by Milan Milojevic

10.00 – 1.00 includes the following guest speakers:
Jackie Hocking (Manager, Port Jackson Press) Thomas Middlemost (Curator of Art, Charles Sturt University)
Sue Forster (Editor, IMPRINT magazine) Iona Johnson & Yvonne Rees-Pagh (University of Tasmania PhD candidates)
Damian Kelly (General Manager, Print Council of Australia) Dr Brian Gilkes (Pharos Editions)
John Ingleton (Hunter Island Press)

2.00-3.30 SPECIAL GUEST LECTURE – SASHA GRISHIN AM
(FAHA, The Sir William Dobell Professor of Art History, Australian National University)

4.00 – Drinks and post Forum conversations at T42. (Constitution Dock). All welcome.
COST : GOLD COIN PAYABLE ON THE DAY AT THE DOOR.
RSVP to Print Council of Australia – email – adminpca@netspace.net.au

SUNDAY 12 SEP – 10.00 – 4.00

Print workshop WITH KAYE GREEN at the new Hunter Island Press studios at Bellerive (www.hunterislandpress.org.au) (see attached workshop details)
COST $40.00 FOR HUNTER ISLAND PRESS MEMBERS/$50.00 NON MEMBERS
NUMBERS STRICTLY LIMITED TO 15
Bookings to John Ingleton – email: lithographie@iprimus.com.au

This forum is the fifth in the PCA’s ongoing series of Forums aimed at supporting and developing our member printmakers and collectors. Previous events have been in Tweed Heads- Lismore, Castlemaine, Adelaide and Brisbane.

We look forward to seeing you there! Contact us on phone 03 9328 8991 or email adminpca@netspace.net.au
5/5 Blackwood Street, North Melbourne, NSW 3051

PCA members & friends are invited to attend our September Committee meeting on Sunday 12 Sep 10:00-12:00pm Location: University of Tasmania, Printmaking Studio, Hunter Street, Hobart (beside Constitution Docks)

Take a quick break from the 3000 artworks on show at this year's Melbourne Art Fair and join us on the IMPRINT publication stand to meet and chat with the Print Council staff, committee members and supporters. Take the weight off your feet, browse through old and new journals, re-subscribe or join up for the first time.

You will find IMPRINT on the first floor at stand M08 in the Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton Gardens, Melbourne.

The 12th Melbourne Art Fair is open daily from 11am 5-8 August following the Vernissage Preview Party at 7pm on 4 August.

Melbourne Art Foundation