Exhibition: Edition Three
5 March - 30 April 2022 | Bankstown Arts Centre, Sydney
Showcasing the diversity of expanded printmaking, Edition Three sought to spotlight experimentation as a methodology within etching, linocut, serigraphy, and monoprinting. This group exhibition featured emerging women artists from across Sydney, celebrating contemporary printmaking practice and the versatility of print-related media in both focused and cross-disciplinary practices.
Affinities between methods and practices prevailed throughout the exhibition, building upon printmaking traditions to create new layers of meaning that bridge the present with the past. Emerging from the exhibition was a sense of connectedness, not through a linear inheritance or relationship, but developed through a sharing of knowledge, material processes and tradition.
Edition Three was the third exhibition in More Than Reproduction’s Edition series, a group of shows that spotlight the artists within their community in celebration of International Women’s Day. The artists in the exhibition were comprised of More Than Reproduction’s profiled artists and those with a connection to South-West Sydney, where Bankstown Arts Centre is situated.
Featuring: Farzana Ahmad, Olivia Arnold, Lucinda Bird, Shani Black, Harriett Clark, Bella La Spina, Vanessa Le, Annabelle McEwen, Vivian Messimeris, Helen Morgan and Sylvie Veness.
Photography by Jennifer Brady.
Events
Belmore Youth Centre Relief Printing Workshops | 15 & 22 February 2022 | Bankswtown Arts Centre
Artist Talks | 12 March 2022 | Bankstown Arts Centre
Statement Writing Workshop | 16 March 2022 | Incubate Artist Studios
Experimental Printmaking Workshop with Annabelle McEwen | 26 March 2022 | Incubate Artist Studios
Photo Documentation Workshop | 30 March 2022 | Incubate Artist Studios
NEXUS Youth Arts Festival Screen Print and Relief Demonstrations | 9 April 2022 | Bankstown Arts Centre
Monoprinting Workshop with Harriett Clark | 23 April 2022 | Incubate Artist Studios
Incubate Artist Studios Residency: Print Exchange
Over a period of almost three months, six artists from Sydney and Canberra were invited into Bankstown Arts Centre’s Incubate Artist Studios to participate in a print exchange. The participating artists created editions of ten prints responding the site of the studios - it's history as a retired Women's Rest Centre, the location of Bankstown's CBD, or other personal connections to the area.
Featuring: Amy Wong, Emily O’Neill, Karlina Mitchell, Karolina Novac, Katika Schultz, Sheila Ngoc Pham and More Than Reproduction.
