Closing and opening
exchanges, general, my art, printmakers, prints :: posted on September 21st, 2009
Osmosis 2009 closed its doors today after a two week exhibition of works that responded to the landscape and culture of Bruny Island. This was a sort of intermission for me between completing my MFA and moving into life after university.
And so to the prints above!
Over the last few months I have been included in an exchange with students from the Warringah Printmakers in Sydney. The wonderful interactive qualities of the inetrnet have enabled me to meet Rosanna and we have enjoyed an ongoing email contact. So this is where we come back to the prints above.
The exchange has been themed by the seasons, and above are my four prints, summer, autumn, winter and spring, each 12 x 12cm. I didn’t plan the four prints as a set, so they may look a bit like someone has had a split personality problem? Anyway, the last print is an etching that I did while I was doing one of my gallery sitting sessions for the Osmosis exhibition, and is probably the first real print post university that has no purpose other than to exist because I felt like it.
A strange feeling really, and more questions than answers.
September 28th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
Great work Linden – believe it or not they do actually look cohesive – I think you’ve developed a really distinct style that shows through.
October 1st, 2009 at 3:03 am
Thanks Jay Dee!! I guess it will always be hard to see your own work from an objective perspective?