Bristol (UK)    16 – 19 September

Interested members may wish to follow the progress of the Conference on http://www.impact.uwe.ac.uk

The Conference has been held internationally every two years and the next one in 2011 is to be hosted by Monash University, Melbourne.

The Conference programme will include over 40 Speakers presenting on 12 panels incl. – Technological Advances – Content and Ideas – International Collaborations – Applied Arts – Subversive Multiples: Activism in The Community – Academia & Education – Artists’ Books: International  Views – Print In The Social Sphere – Theoretical Approaches to Print – Photographic/Graphic – Political Printmaking – Pigments v Light: New Approaches to Colour Mixing.

There will be over 70 exhibitions at the School of Creative Arts and at venues across the city. The Academic Poster Sessions will include over 30 presentations, alongside the Product Fair of renowned suppliers and representatives from the print industry. Delegates will show artwork collections at the Open Portfolio Session. Several practical Demonstrations will take place and an IMPACT enamelling project. The conference will end with a banquet at the Royal Marriott Hotel in Bristol.

Rosemary Mostyn

Dear all members of the Printmakers Association of Western Australia, I have gladly accepted the role of President for the next exciting year. Since my recent emigration to Perth from Manchester I have been activity involved in engaging with Contemporary Arts practice in WA through visiting galleries and exhibitions and applying for artist residencies, and have also set up a studio at home.

I consider that my new role as President of PAWA is a unique opportunity at an important point of the association’s 35-year history. To focus WA Contemporary Fine Art Printmaking practice into a positive and supportive environment that emanates from the new studio facilities at the Tresillian Community Centre.

As a Fine Artist-Printmaker (who graduated from the Royal College of Art, in London), my work has explored the Human Body from a variety of contexts – be it from an anatomical, historical or most recently an architectural viewpoint. I became increasingly conscious of my own domestic activity within a confined space. This led me to consider the layout and occupation of domestic spaces applying ‘Space Syntax Theory’ and the ‘Configuration Analysis’ of houses.

By using blind etching and embossing and the subtle quality of line through drawing, etching and lithography I hoped to create simple but beautiful images that would reflect the nature of each space. A copper plate plaque installed on a wall, recorded all the jobs carried out in a single property, the immaculately polished surface the summation of all the dull jobs done again and again. This series of etchings, photo-etchings and light-boxes was exhibited as part of  ‘Episodic Realities’ at the John Moore’s School of Art and Design in 2007, and ‘Milieus in Focus’ most recently shown at Keighley Arts Factory, Yorkshire in November 2008.

I have recently been employed as a course leader for ‘Artlab’ an open access Printmaking Studio at the University of Central Lancashire, printmaking technician and lecturer and have a wide experience of running artist led workshops. I will be putting further details and images on the PAWA website soon and strongly encourage all members to consider contributing their details and images onto the site as  it provides a strong visual statement of who we are.

I would be grateful for any feedback from members on anything that they would like to include in the agenda for the next committee meeting, for example skills you would like to have disseminated through workshops, ideas for exhibitions/collaborations etc   and how best we can support your membership of the Printmaking Association of Western Australia.

My E-mail is sarahrobinson.print@gmail.com

Subsequent to the Annual General Meeting held at our Tresillian studio last Saturday the committee is pleased announce that we have an enthusiastic team keen to see PAWA thrive.

New President: Sarah Robinson
Vice President : Susanne Hamlyn Sullivan
Treasurer: Krissie Dawson
Treasurer’s Assistant: Rosemary Mostyn
Secretary: Hilda Klap
Office Coordinators: Rosemary Mostyn, Aloma Berg, Ruby Ellen
Exhibitions Coordinator: none as yet
Workshops: None as yet…although Mervyn Beamish to be approached for confirmation.
General Committee: Shelley Cowper,Mureen Elphick, Anne Blockley, Marion Pearson
Fund and Project Liaison Officers: Marion Pearson and Susanne Hamlyn Sullivan
E- Bytes and Web Master: Amanda Williams