Exhibition: Edition Five
8 - 26 March 2024 | Broadhurst Gallery, Hazelhurst Arts Centre
With or without the visibility they deserve, women artists have engaged with printmaking since its beginning. And yet, due to its nature as physically demanding and requiring artistic virtuosity, printmaking was deemed man’s labour and not suitable for women. This left them at the peripheries of art history despite playing an integral role within the medium’s revolution, calling gender into question as it spanned social and technological transformation. This gendered relegation led to a longstanding history of women forming collectives and communities in printmaking, gathering to push against dogmatic conditions and advocate for their inclusion in a medium bound in tradition, both societally and artistically.
Surveying the breadth and depth of contemporary print-practice, Edition Five marks More Than Reproduction (MTR)’s fifth anniversary as an artist-run initiative, aligning with International Women’s Day. Demonstrating the malleability of printmaking in both focused and cross-disciplinary practices, the exhibition features recent work by ten artists from MTR’s monthly artist profile program. Underpinned by parallels and polarities, experimentation is at the nucleus of the exhibition, with artists navigating diverse print methodologies and outputs. In this exhibition, printmaking exists within the depths of the past and the surface of the present; where the reproducible and unique converge and co-exist. Although seemingly disparate, the works in Edition Five demonstrate a sense of connectedness, not through a linear inheritance, but rather synchronicity; acausal coincidences, whereby there is unity in diversity.
Featuring Danielle Creenaune, Saskia Haalebos, Angela Hayson, Jacqueline Jacky, Isabella Kennedy, Emilee Robinson, Jenny Robinson, Katika Schultz, Brigitta Summers, and Maria Thaddea.
Photography by Jennifer Brady.
Events
Meet the Artists & Printmaking Demonstrations | with Jacqueline Jacky & Maria Thaddea | 9 March 2024
Panel Discussion: Resist, Register, Repeat | with Danielle Creenaune, Carolyn McKenzie-Craig & Brigitta Summers | 17 March 2024
