All together
general, my art, photography, prints :: posted on July 17th, 2009
The winter chill has settled on the roof of the car on some mornings. It freshens up the squishy mud that has developed in the yard with all the rain we have had over the last couple of months. A lot of people who have grown up in Tasmania and remembering how it was so wet and chilled in winter in years gone by. It is certainly needed, to fill the dams and lift the drought from the parched farms.
So in between carting folders, boxes and armloads of prints, plates and all the odds and ends that goes with it from university to home I have been putting together a little exchange print.
I intend to add one more layer this weekend which will hopefully pull the print together – a gradient roll up. I’ve also started working on the next major project which is going to be developed around the fan.
As you can see it is in the early stages yet! After two etches – a line etch and then the aquatint – it is starting to build up to what I am hoping to create in print. I just love the very old painted fans with the stories so beautifully crafted across the classic fan shape. My fans may not have such clear cut stories though – perhaps there will be some layered perspectives in there! I am using the fan as a mask between the local environment, which will be around the outside of the fan, and the story that brings the holder of the fan to that point in time – if that makes sense!
It is an interesting project to embark on – gentle after the intensity of the MFA, but it will still require a lot of research and as I’m basing it on my family history it will mean a few trips about Australia – and beyond?
July 18th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Can’t wait to see your response to the family history – am doing something similar next year (a visit to Scotland being part of it). Get in touch if you are up this way on your travels as would love to catch up over a cuppa!
July 19th, 2009 at 4:50 am
Yes a cuppa would be great! I’m hoping to get up this year, or after the hot months next year. Time goes so quickly it is often hard to stop long enough to make the bookings. Family histories are such rich pool to wade in – it will be interesting to see what shows up. The problem is that the lives of the women were not recorded as much as the men, unless of course there is a journal out there somewhere!
July 22nd, 2009 at 1:09 pm
Lovely, count yourself in for morning tea when you are up this way then
. And yes, might be a bit hard to get some information on the lives of the women from the family but it is just as interesting hearing other people’s recollections of them too sometimes….Will be interesting to see what skeletons may pop out of the cupboard!!
July 22nd, 2009 at 1:15 pm
Yes that is true! I have anjoyed reading Lucy Frost’s ‘No Place for a Nervous Lady’ and also Barbara Baynton’s ‘Bush Studies” – both very good for researching about the colonial women.