Printmaking at QCA & GCCA.
Featuring: Chase Archer, Rebecca Austin, Blair Coffey, Clare Cowley, Russell Craig, Fred Gooch, Domenica Hoare, Nicola Hooper, David Nixon, Glen Skien, Torinne Zach.
LARGESSE speaks to two qualities that are evident in the prints being made in the Queensland College of Art print studios and at the Griffith Centre for Creative Art Research. Firstly, there has been a recent surge of LARGE prints being produced by postgraduates at QCA. These range from PhD candidate Blair Coffey’s expansive silkscreened canvasses through to large assemblages of small prints such as the work of PhD candidate David Nixon, honours graduate Fred Gooch, DVA graduate Glen Skien and graduate Torinne Zach. Secondly, whether through intaglio, relief, silkscreening, lithography or digital (all represented in this exhibition), printmaking is intrinsically a GENEROUS, democratic medium. By it art is tangibly shared with or mutually owned by the public, and it is in this spirit that these artists freely share the rewards of their labour.
