Looking Forward // Looking Back brings together emerging artists who respond to, reflect on, or reimagine the QCAD printmaking folio box archive as both object and idea. Featuring students from print: praxis at Queensland College of Art and Design, Griffith University, the exhibition considers the folio’s dual role—as a vessel of memory, history, and process, and as a catalyst for experimentation and future possibility.
Through this exchange between past and present, the artists explore the layered nature of printmaking: its traditions, repetitions, and reinventions. Some works draw on established techniques and stories embedded in the medium, while others propose new directions and expanded forms of practice. Together, the works reveal how printmaking continually moves between preservation and progression, grounded in shared histories while opening space for what comes next.
Saturday Dec 6: 3pm – 4pm
Audiences are invited to reflect on the past while imagining the future of printmaking in Queensland.
Image: Looking Forward // Looking Back (installation view). Image courtesy PARKER Contemporary.
