Lesley Alcorso Edition
A very special limited edition series of specially commissioned works by leading Tasmanian artists celebrate the life of the Alcorso Foundation’s inaugural President, Lesley Alcorso. The inaugural Lesley Alcorso Edition also acknowledge the strength and standing of Tasmanian printmaking. These are significant works by some very significant Tasmanian artists. Featured artists are Nic Goodwolf, Barbie Kjar, Milan Milojevic, Michael Schlitz and Helen Wright.
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Milan Milojevic
Terra Incognita
2008
420 X 595mm
Digital/Etching
Terra Incognita is a part of an ongoing series entitled, Between Two Worlds, which explores migration and cross-cultural upbringing. Milan, a first generation Australian of German/Yugoslav parents, sources 18th and 19th century engravings produced during scientific voyages of discovery and then scans and reconfigures details to create new images. The creatures he creates in his prints reflect geographical, historical and cultural displacement.
Milan, ‘sampling’ traditional printmaking marks, seamlessly brings elements together in what Max Ernst called a plane of consistency, where two or more incompatible realities meet. The prints Milan creates are printed digitally and then added to in layers using traditional printmaking media such as etching and woodcut. In Terra Incognita he has over printed a wood block onto digitally printed images.
Milan was appointed by the University of Tasmania to teach printmaking in 1981 and since 1987 has been head of the Printmaking Studio. He has exhibited nationally and internationally and has held regular solo exhibitions over the past two decades and contributed to group exhibitions throughout Australia, USA, UK, Europe and Asia. He has received awards from major national funding bodies including DAAD – German Academic Exchange Service, the Australia Council and the Australian Research Council. He has undertaken several international residencies in Scotland including: Peacock Arts in Aberdeen and at the Glasgow School of Art.
Milan’s work is held in major public and private collections in Australia and Europe, including Art Bank, Art Gallery of South Australia, National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of NSW, Queensland Art Gallery, Parliament House, Canberra, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Montrose Academy, Scotland and the Bureau of Artistic Exhibitions, Poland.
Milan Milojevic is represented by Colville Street Art Gallery, Hobart.
Nic Goodwolf
Future Catchers
2008
420 X 595mm
2 plate etching on aluminium
This work deals with energy exploration and human interaction in a global context. Energy and energy harvesting by societies is not exclusive to the human race. The harvesting of honey by bee colonies is being explored in the same way that humans harvest with oilrigs, hydroelectric dams and wind farms. The work is about the human desire for innovation. It is about the desire and power to succeed regardless and the necessity to find balance.
Working on plates is a fluid process. Nic treats each print as unique and loves to see each work as an individual in a series of the edition.
Nic Goodwolf was awarded the Claudio Alcorso Foundation Art Residency to Italy in 2005. Nic undertook master classes in printmaking before spending two months in a studio perfecting new skills in environmental printmaking techniques. Born in Germany, Nic completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Tasmanian School of Art, a Diploma of Education at Charles Sturt University as well as coursework at the Etage School for Arts in Berlin before he founded the Tapir Print Workshop. He is a practicing artist, arts educator and co-founder of Artgoods, a company that promotes Tasmanian visual artists nationally and internationally. During the last 10 years Nic has exhibited extensively in Australia and overseas. He has won numerous prestigious prizes in Germany for his work. Nic Goodwolf is represented in many private collections in Australia as well as overseas, including Artbank and the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery collections.
Nic Goodwolf is represented by Handmark Gallery, Hobart.
Michael Schlitz
Comber
2008
420 X 595mm
Woodcut
Michael Schlitz has recently been creating work that investigates the nature of human interaction with the environment. Sometimes serious sometimes humorous, the figures he represents interact with themselves and the viewer within the confines of the ground in which they are placed.
Michael won the Hutchins Art Prize in 2007 and has received Australia Council new work grants and Arts Tasmania residencies studying contemporary Japanese woodblock printing in Awaji Shima Japan. Michael exhibits regularly in Tasmania and nationally. He currently teaches within the Printmaking Studio at the Tasmanian School of Art.
Michael Schlitz is represented by Bett Gallery, Hobart.
Helen Wright
Tower of Song
2008
420 X 595mm
Relief print
Helen Wright lives and works in Hobart, Tasmania. She teaches Printmaking at the Tasmanian School of Art and is the recipient of numerous Australia Council and Arts Tasmania grants. These include the Australia Council Studio in Barcelona and New Work grants. She is included in such collections as the Australian National Gallery Canberra; National Gallery of Victoria; Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery; Artbank; Art Gallery of South Australia; and Queensland Art Gallery.
Helen Wright is represented by Bett Gallery, Hobart; Niagara Galleries, Melbourne; and Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra.
Barbie Kjar
Dart
2008
420 X 595mm
Relief print and drypoint
The print, entitled Dart, is part of a series of works related to games. The flight of the dart is functioning as a signpost and a mooring.
Barbie Kjar was born in Tasmania and has completed a Masters of Fine Art from RMIT Melbourne and a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Education from the University of Tasmania. She has undertaken residencies in Barcelona, Havana, San Francisco, Mexico City and Tokyo. Since 1986 she has held 34 solo exhibitions in Australia and more recently in Barcelona and Tokyo. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions in Australia, China, Korea, Siberia, France, Canada, USA and Japan.
Barbie Kjar’s work has been acquired by the Australian National Gallery, Canberra; Parliament House, Canberra; Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, Fremantle Arts Centre, Grafton Regional Art Gallery, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, University of Southern Queensland, and is held in numerous private collections.
She lectures part time in Printmaking at the Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania, and is represented by Bett Gallery, Hobart; Australian Galleries, Sydney and Melbourne; Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra; and Grahame Galleries, Brisbane.
